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  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being bandaged at Klip's Drift after marching from Jacobsdal to Kimberley. Reproduction after a photograph by R. Thiele.
  • Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • Boer War: soldiers' graves at Rondesbosch decorated with floral tributes for Easter. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. S. Smith.
  • Boer War: two aristocratic ladies in the grounds of a large house used as a military hospital at Rondebosch, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after Duffus Brothers.
  • Boer War: hospital picket on the guard at night. Reproduction of a watercolour.
  • Boer War: hospital cooks preparing food in the open air. Halftone, c.1900.
  • Boer War: soldiers erecting a marble memorial to men who died in the attack on Pieter's Hill. Halftone, 1900, after G. Soper after R. K. Hodgson.
  • Boer War: a full ward in the Wynberg military hospital, South Africa, with nurses attending the wounded. Halftone, 1900, after P. Spence after H. Egersdorfer.
  • Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.
  • Boer War: a hospital ward with soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • 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.
  • Boer War: Indian ambulance bearers under fire. Process print after R. Caton Woodville.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers awaiting for medical help in the cold and damp. Watercolour by L. Calkin, 1899.
  • Boer War: a busy hospital ward on St. Patrick's day with a wounded Irishman being offered shamrock by a visiting lady. Process print after R. Macbeth after A. Johnstone, c. 1900.
  • Boer War: Colonel Baden-Powell inspecting a sick horse at a military camp in Mafeking (Mahikeng). Process print by J.Swain & Son after G. Scott after D. Taylor.
  • Boer War: a wounded Boer General prisoner being taken off the ship at Cape Town. Process print after F. de Haenen after Fyne.
  • Boer War: bringing in the wounded the Willow Grange fight. Process print.
  • Victoria cross gallery : Lieutenant H.Z.C. Cockburn for great bravery on Komati River, 7 November 1900.
  • 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.
  • Victoria cross gallery : Surgeon-Captain A. Martin-Leake : during the action at Vlakfontein 8, February 1902 attended several wounded under heavy fire from 40 Boers at 100 yards until wounded 3 times.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers returning to Ladysmith camp after a battle. Reproduction after a watercolour by F. Dadd after photograph.
  • Boer War: a nurse helping invalids to an ambulance for transfer to Maritzburg from Ladysmith. Process print after a drawing by F. Dadd after W.T. Maud.
  • A fracture of the tibia and fibula of Major William Scott-Moncrieff at the battle of Spion Kop, South Africa, April 1900. Radiograph, 1900/1904.
  • Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.
  • Boer War: the wounded and dead being brought in after the Battle of Pepworth Hill. Process print.
  • Boer War: an elderly woman sitting outside with her son who is a patient at Netley Hospital. Halftone after a photograph.
  • Boer War: thirsty ambulance men queuing up at a beer tent. Process print by Swain after F. Dadd after A. Lindsay Twite.
  • Boer War: the High Commissioner for South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, visiting a hospital ward where two men lie injured. Pen drawing by Sahr, c.1901, after H.D. Collison-Morley.
  • Boer War: a military physician bandages a wounded man in the open air, others watch. Halftone after H. M. Paget, c.1900.
  • Boer War: an army surgeon at work on a battlefield where many lie injured. Halftone, c. 1900.