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World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.

Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.

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

Red Cross workers carrying wounded bugler into hospital / Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.

Spanish soldiers returning from the fighting line : the above picture shows wounded Spanish soldiers being conveyed to the hospital during the fighting now taking place at Melilla between the Spanish troops and the Moorish tribesmen.

Boer War: wounded soldiers being lifted off a hospital ship and carried away on stretchers. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. de Haenen after J. Bruton.

Florence Nightingale. Engraving by W. H. Simmons, 1863, after J. D. Luard, 1858.

World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.

A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).

<p>Presumably an episode in the Napoleonic Wars, of which Lecomte made many depictions. In the background is a large city</p>

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Ueber den Transport der im Felde Verwundeten und Kranken / von Th. Billroth und J.v. Mundy. Nebst den Verhandlungen der auf Einladung der Herren Billroth, v. Mundy und Wittelshöfer im Sanitäts-Pavillon der Wiener Weltausstelung 1873 vom 6.-9. October versammelten internationalen Privat-Conferenz über Verbesserung der Pflege der im Felde Verwundeten und Kranken. 1. Abth.

1 print : halftone ; image 10.6 x 16.9 cm

Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.

<p>Cutting from a British newspaper (21 August 1905?).</p>

Military and naval ephemera. Box 1

1 sheet : 1 black and white illustration ; 19 x 22 cm

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Transport of sick and wounded

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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

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

Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.

A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).

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Transport of sick and wounded

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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

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

Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.

A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).

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