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  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • 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.
  • A man in the Congo is being carried in a litter by four other men travelling in a party. Engraving, 17989.
  • World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Oil painting by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919.
  • A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • Indian men carrying a European officer in a palanquin. Gouache by an Indian artist.
  • A physician holds up a glass of urine in a hospital. Pen drawing.
  • Franco-Prussian War: French wounded being treated at Metz. Wood engraving by J.W.B.
  • Crimean War: removal of wounded soldiers with two small illustrations in the border. Line engraving by G. Greatbach after R. Hind.
  • A European man in India (?) being carried in a litter on the shoulders of four men. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker.
  • World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Oil painting by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919.
  • 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.
  • A man of high rank in the Congo is being carried in a litter by four other men. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig.
  • Boer War: collecting the wounded from the battlefield using newly invented ambulance transport. Reproduction after a watercolour by F. Craig.
  • A man in Madagascar being carried on a litter on the shoulders of four men. Wood engraving by F.-J. Gauchard.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Boer War: bringing the wounded dwom from Spion Kop. Process print after H.M. Paget.
  • Slaves harvesting cinnamon near Colombo, Sri Lanka. Line engraving by Mutlow.
  • Boer War: arrival of the sick and wounded at Grand Central Freight Depot for transportation. Pen and ink drawing by A. Weil.
  • A man brought on a bier before an altar. Drawing attributed to Pieter de Jode I.
  • Wounded soldiers being taken to hospital by ambulance. Wood engraving by J. Gaildrau, 1854.
  • American Civil War: officers saluting the wounded being brought in after the battle of Lewinsville, Virginia, 1861. Wood engraving by F. Skill.
  • World War I: two men carrying a stretcher among the trenches in France. Wash drawing by D. Lindsay, ca. 191-.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
  • Crowds of sick people and their families making the pilgrimage to Lourdes in the hope of a miraculous cure. Reproduction of a wood engraving after H. Lanos.
  • The paralytic is lowered through the roof of a crowded house so that Christ can reach him and cure him. Engraving by J. Newton, 1795 (?), after C.R. Ryley.
  • A man is being carried recumbent on a bier supported between two horses, men on horseback are watching from the side of the road. Wood engraving by CfB (?).
  • Boer War: Indian ambulance bearers under fire. Process print after R. Caton Woodville.