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Images

  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing in the wounded to an open air Japanese field hospital. Wash drawing by G. Soper, 1904, after a photograph by J. Ruddiman Johnston.
  • Ambroise Paré, on the battlefield using a ligature for the artery of an amputated leg of a soldier. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after E. Morin.
  • Serbo-Bulgarian War: wounded Russian soldiers begging ambulance men to be taken away from the battlefield. Wood engraving.
  • The fatal wounding of Sir Ralph Abercrombie at Alexandria, 1801. Line engraving.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • India: the ruins of Sammy House surrounded by scattered bones of sepoys killed in action. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.
  • Wounded soldiers being taken to hospital by ambulance. Wood engraving by J. Gaildrau, 1854.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
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Works

  • view Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.
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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
  • view Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.
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    Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.

    Creagh, Henry Brazier, Major, active 1912. | Date: 1900 | Reference: 23539i
  • view The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.
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    The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 18594i
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    A soldier receiving treatment from the surgeon at a battlefield. Coloured lithograph by G. David after A. de Marbot.

    Marbot, Alfred de. | Date: 1814 | Reference: 20085i
  • view Boer War: the work of the Red Cross and medical staff with coats of arms. Reproduction of watercolours after A. Stewart and J.J. Waugh and wood engraving by A.H. Fisher, 1900.
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    Boer War: the work of the Red Cross and medical staff with coats of arms. Reproduction of watercolours after A. Stewart and J.J. Waugh and wood engraving by A.H. Fisher, 1900.

    Fisher, A. Hugh, 1867-1945. | Date: 1900 | Reference: 22288i
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