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World War One, two nurses attending to a patient

World War One: operating theatre in portable hut of a C.C.S.

Appliances from 'Mechanical Substitute for The Arms',

POW's in Germany

World War One: photograph of transport of wounded.

World War I: advanced dressing station

WWI: drawing of Royal Army Medical Corps, by F. Matania

World War One: mobile bacteriological laboratory

World War One: first aid on the battlefield, Somme.

World War I: picture taken down the
centre of a hospital ward, beds on either side and one elevated at the end, in the middle of the picture.

World War I: hospital beds

World War I: transport of wounded. Ambulance (French?).

Label from the box of appliances from Mr George Thomson's 'Mechanical Substitute for The Arms', used by an amputee who had lost both his arms at the shoulders, listing the items enclosed.

Appliancesrom from 'Mechanical Substitute for The Arms',

Casualty clearing station Grevillers Bapaume. German and British wounded awaiting transport.

World War I: German & British wounded waiting to be evacuated

World War I photograph: gathering the wounded

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World War I: hospital beds

World War One: photograph of transport of wounded.

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World War I: German & British wounded waiting to be evacuated

World War I photograph: gathering the wounded

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World War One

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World War I: hospital beds

World War One: photograph of transport of wounded.

Appliancesrom from 'Mechanical Substitute for The Arms',

World War I: German & British wounded waiting to be evacuated

World War I photograph: gathering the wounded

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