Vehicle equipped for transporting and caring for ill and wounded people

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Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.

Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.

Crimean War: ambulance men collecting the wounded after the Battle of Inkermann. Wood engraving.

Boer War: Red Cross hospital train arriving at Durban. Process print by C.H. after F.C. Harrison after F. Dadd, 1899.

A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.

Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.

Two soldiers carrying a wounded comrade off the battlefield. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.

Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

The ambulance movement in Scotland / by James Whitson.

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Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.

A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.

Two soldiers carrying a wounded comrade off the battlefield. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.

Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

The ambulance movement in Scotland / by James Whitson.