SFOR UN Pulse Ambulance (Bosnia) — Difflocked Registry

The record

The Marshall-bodied Pulse ambulance on the Defender 130 chassis was the British Army's battlefield ambulance from the early 1990s, its tall composite box carrying four stretchers behind a standard Defender cab. When British troops served in Bosnia — first with the UN Protection Force and, from December 1996, with the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR), which operated under a UN Security Council mandate but was not a UN force — some of the medical fleet kept the UN's white livery and simply added SFOR to it.

H115 BAU is one of those: white overall with UN and SFOR lettered on the box front above an AMBULANCE plate and an RAF roundel, big red crosses on the box sides and rear doors with SFOR behind them, UN and the UN emblem on the front doors, a large blue beacon on a plinth at the front of the box roof, two blue lamps low on the bumper and the spare on the bonnet. It survives in preservation and is modelled from a Flickr photograph.

Specification

MANUFACTURERMarshall of Cambridge ↗

Land Rover / Marshall of Cambridge (Pulse ambulance body)

MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERBritish Army (UN/SFOR livery)

MANUFACTUREDH registration

ENGINERover 3.5 L V8 petrol (V8 badge on the doors)

PRODUCTION RUNunknown

COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom

OPERATED INUnited Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Nations

STATUSpreserved

REGISTRATIONH115 BAU

FITTINGSPulse box body, large roof beacon, bumper blue lamps, bonnet spare, UN/SFOR markings

RECORD KINDNamed model

MODEL LINEDefender

WHEELS4

NOMINAL WHEELBASE130″

CATEGORYSpecial · Ambulances, Military · United Nations, Military · UK

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Renders & references

SFOR UN Pulse Ambulance (Bosnia) — front three-quarter view, registry 3D render — **Front three-quarter**Registry render

SFOR UN Pulse Ambulance (Bosnia) — three-quarter view, registry 3D render — **Three-quarter**Registry render

SFOR UN Pulse Ambulance (Bosnia) — side view, registry 3D render — **Side**Registry render

SFOR UN Pulse Ambulance (Bosnia) — rear view, registry 3D render — **Rear**Registry render

SFOR UN Pulse Ambulance (Bosnia) — front view, registry 3D render — **Front**Registry render

SFOR UN Pulse Ambulance (Bosnia) — H115 BAU in UN white with SFOR markings — the reference for this model; linked only. — **H115 BAU in UN white with SFOR markings — the reference for this model; linked only.**Flickr user 28439790@N03 ↗

Where it was

GB United Kingdom1997–2010BA Bosnia and Herzegovina1997–2004 · SFOR

BuiltMarshall of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · 1996–199752.21, 0.17
ServedBanja Luka, SFOR Multinational Division South-WestBosnia and Herzegovina · 1997–200444.77, 17.19

Sources

1Land Rover Defender 130 Pulse ambulance H115 BAU (Flickr photograph) ↗Flickr · accessed 2026-09-12SOURCE
2https://www.flickr.com/photos/28439790@N03/15208293513https://www.flickr.com/photos/28439790@N03/15208293513 ↗REFERENCE
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MMB Defender 130 St John ambulance · HERITAGE-FLEET-REFERENCES.md
Tall square medical body; side patient access; ambulance lighting and markings. Reference: https://www.lrheritagecollection.org.uk/the-collection/vehicles/svc-01
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[Land Rover ambulance dimensions](https://www.landrover.es/content/dam/lrdx/pdfs/es/711389_L316_15MY%20AVM_110_130_AMBULANCE%206pp.pdf): 130 chassis-cab ambulance layout and 1,790 mm cab width / 1,486 mm track reference. · DEFENDER-PROPORTIONS.md
- [Land Rover ambulance dimensions](https://www.landrover.es/content/dam/lrdx/pdfs/es/711389_L316_15MY%20AVM_110_130_AMBULANCE%206pp.pdf): 130 chassis-cab ambulance layout and 1,790 mm cab width / 1,486 mm track reference.
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