World War One, two nurses attending to a patient

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

World War One: photograph of transport of wounded.

World War I: advanced dressing station

View of the Lake at The Imperial Summer Palace, Beijing

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

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

Soldiers, Infantry, being paid their wages by the Roman government, while the Cavalry are seen fending for themselves

Example of Beheading, a Roman military punishment carried out by the use of a axe or sword

Example of a Roman military punishment for Adultery, where the feet of the soldier were tied to two branches of trees bent down, which being suddenly let free, tore the offender apart.

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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?).

Roman military punishment showing the breaking of the legs of slaves or persons of an inferiour level.

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: 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.

Roman military punishment showing the breaking of the legs of slaves or persons of an inferiour level.

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

World War I photograph: gathering the wounded

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