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

New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.

Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

Boer War: patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic while being watched by three nurses. Halftone, c.1900, after F. de Haenen.

Boer War: a full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after H. McCormick.

Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.

Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and her staff nursing a patient in the military hospital at Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855, by T. Packer after himself.

Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her lamp at a patient's bedside. Colour lithograph, 1891, after H. Rae.

Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.

Boer War: collecting the wounded from the battlefield using newly invented ambulance transport. Reproduction after a watercolour by F. Craig.

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

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Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, senior lady superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / with an introduction by field-marshal the earl Roberts / compiled from her letters and papers by Alexander F. Bradshaw.

<p>One in a series of lithographs by Jean-Henri Marlet that were published in Paris in 1817. They look back at the recently finished Napoleonic wars, representing stock incidents of war with spirit but with little affection. This one, perhaps set in Italy or Spain, features four episodes which together form a concise study of the ways in which the suffering of the wounded could be relieved, and by whom. The title "Les bons camarades" (good comrades) implies mutual self-help and improvisation among the soldiers of a defeated army, rather than confidence in aid from a professional team of stretcher-bearers</p>

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 25.9 x 20.8 cm

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

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 28.3 x 22.8 cm

A soldier receiving treatment from the surgeon at a battlefield. Coloured lithograph by G. David after A. de Marbot.

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

Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, senior lady superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / with an introduction by field-marshal the earl Roberts / compiled from her letters and papers by Alexander F. Bradshaw.

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

Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

A soldier receiving treatment from the surgeon at a battlefield. Coloured lithograph by G. David after A. de Marbot.

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Military nursing

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

Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, senior lady superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / with an introduction by field-marshal the earl Roberts / compiled from her letters and papers by Alexander F. Bradshaw.

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

Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

A soldier receiving treatment from the surgeon at a battlefield. Coloured lithograph by G. David after A. de Marbot.

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