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  • Boer War: the Princess of Wales at the National Bazaar in aid of war victims, being presented with a bouquet of flowers. Halftone after B. Salmon, 1903.
  • Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.
  • A sheet of sketches showing war defences and victims during the Chinese Campaign, 1860, China. Tinted lithograph after Lt. Col. Crealock, 1860.
  • 8th Xhosa War: the funeral of a British war victim under torchlight on the field. Lithograph, ca. 1852.
  • A large cannon pushed forwards by Furies crushes American soldiers under its wheels; representing the American Civil War. Wood engraving after J. Tenniel, 1864.
  • Soldiers looting and pillaging an inn in the countryside after they refused to pay for their board and lodging. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The recruitment and signing up of soldiers outside the town walls. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • A grateful military leader presenting virtuous soldiers with awards and punishing corrupt soldiers in a ceremony. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Soldiers plundering a convent, killing and raping the men and women that resist them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Soldiers sacking a mansion and torturing its inhabitants. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Chinese carrying a wounded man on stretcher poles. Wood engraving.
  • A battlefield littered with corpses of soldiers and carcasses of horses during a fierce cavalry battle. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Soldiers pillaging a village. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Soldiers attacking a coach on a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Criminal soldiers are caught in their hiding places in woods and brought to justice. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers by hanging them in large numbers on a tree. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The burning of criminal soldiers on the stake. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The punishment of criminal soldiers on a scaffold-like contraption called "Strappado". Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Maimed, diseased and dying former soldiers lie by the roadside with a priest attending to them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Maimed soldiers dragging themselves to a hospital. Etching, 1730, after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Peasants avenging themselves by attacking soldiers from woods next to a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • World War One: soldiers escorting wounded men from a war damaged building. Photogravure, 1916, after F. Matania.
  • Boer War: a one armed man helps a one legged man. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.
  • Russo-Japanese War: wounded soldiers slouched on benches and on stretchers on a stone floor. Watercolour.
  • A firing squad executing criminal soldiers. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Boer War: a wounded man addresses a superior officer seated at his bedside. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.
  • Boer War: a British officer's pony looking at the bones of a Boer's pony killed by a shell. Halftone, c. 1900, after S. S. Lucas after a photograph by E. Blake Knox.
  • World War One: a young soldier lies dying in a woman's arms on a deserted battlefield. Colour halftone, c. 1915, after D. Tennant.