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Concept

Ambulances

Images

  • 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.
  • Franco-Prussian War: French wounded being treated at Metz. Wood engraving by J.W.B.
  • Serbo-Bulgarian War: wounded Russian soldiers begging ambulance men to be taken away from the battlefield. Wood engraving.
  • Crimean War: removal of wounded soldiers with two small illustrations in the border. Line engraving by G. Greatbach after R. Hind.
  • Franco-Prussian War: English ambulance services encamped outside the Park of St. Germain, Paris. Wood engraving.
  • Boer War: Indians carrying a wounded soldier in a dhoolie. Process print.
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Catalogue

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

    Waugh, J. J. | Reference: 22131i
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    A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.

    | Date: 1850 | Reference: 24422i
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    Two soldiers carrying a wounded comrade off the battlefield. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.

    Marlet, Jean-Henri, 1770-1847. | Date: [1817] | Reference: 20118i
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    Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.

    | Date: 1864 | Reference: 24323i
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    The ambulance movement in Scotland / by James Whitson.

    Whitson, James. | Date: 1884
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