Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
41 results
  • A soldier being interviewed for the medical corps who doesn't know where his spleen is. Wood engraving, 1912.
  • An army medical officer trying to find out from an ignorant soldier if he knows where his arteries are. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1907.
  • A soldier complaining of pain in his abdomen to a corporal, the corporal retorts that he has a stomach - only officers have abdomens. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1912.
  • A large and evil-looking army physician eagerly inoculates a fearful young man. Pen and ink drawing by F. May, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • World War I: an R.A.M.C. bearer supplying water to the front line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers milling in a temporary dressing station concealed in a hollow. Collotype, 1904.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers gathered in a temporary dressing station concealed in a hollow. Collotype, 1904.
  • Russo-Japanese War: Japanese ambulance men at work on a battlefield. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson, 1904.
  • Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • Russo-Japanese War: rows of women in a large warehouse making bandages for the wounded Japanese. Pen and ink drawing, 1904.
  • Boer War: soldiers checking the contents of crates of medical supplies. Halftone, c.1900.
  • Boer War: soldiers washing their feet in a stream. Halftone, c.1900, after T. Winter.
  • Boer War: the Alexandra ward on board the "Princess of Wales" hospital ship. Halftone, c.1900, after Gregory.
  • An ambulance corps in the field gathering by T. [S.] Crowther and attending to wounded men. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A beach in the Dardanelles with soldiers unloading medical supplies from a ship to Red Cross trucks. Colour halftone after N. Wilkinson, 1915.
  • World War One: a busy scene at an army medical depot with Red Cross ambulances for the wounded. Watercolour, c. 1914.
  • World War I: an exhibition poster with illustration of the Royal Army Medical Corps on active service. Colour halftone, 1968, after a painting by H. Mackey.
  • Boer War: a military physician bandages a wounded man in the open air, others watch. Wash drawing with gouache by H. M. Paget, c.1900.
  • Russo-Japanese War: rows of wounded soldiers in a temporary dressing station at Hsuchiakou, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • An ambulance corps at work in the field. Halftone.
  • Boer War: a military physician bandages a wounded man in the open air, others watch. Halftone after H. M. Paget, c.1900.
  • World War One: two orderlies and a working dog of the German Red Cross. Halftone, c. 1916.
  • Boer War: an army medical officer, Joseph Hinton, pulling down the fly of a marquee in which lie soldiers with enteric fever. Process print after A. S. Hartrick, c. 1900.
  • Boer War: a medical examination of soldiers at Cape Town. Halftone, 1900.
  • 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.