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  • Nurses and patients in a naval hospital ward. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915.
  • An old sailor with wooden leg relates his adventures to a family as both men smoke and drink. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after J. Sheringham.
  • A disabled soldier has his wooden legs stolen by four Irishmen in a bar. Colour lithograph by H.G. Banks, ca. 1899.
  • [Small fund-raising sticker for the Scuola Tornitori (Florence, Italy)].
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, seated, wearing a red coat and tricorn hat, holding a pipe and a stick. Watercolour painting.
  • A lone, wounded, French grenadier greets a skeletal death figure with the words "I am ready". Lithograph, 1829, by N.-T. Charlet.
  • A man with a broken leg is having its muscles stimulated by an electrical machine. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • Greenwich Pensioners variously sitting or standing in the colonnade of the "Helpless ward" at Greenwich Hospital. Lithograph by S. Rayner.
  • Greenwich Pensioners variously sitting or standing in the colonnade of the "Helpless ward" at Greenwich Hospital. Lithograph by S. Rayner.
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • [5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].
  • Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • World War II: wounded soldiers convalescing at Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent. Photograph, 194-.
  • Lest we forget : buy your Xmas presents at the exhibition and sale of goods made by war disabled men at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, S.W.7 November 7th to 17th, 1928 ... : in co-operation with the British Legion : admission free / Imperial Institute ; [illustrated by] E. Whatley.
  • Boer War: soldiers relaxing by Southampton Water with a view across the estuary to Netley Hospital. Halftone after a photograph by W. Gregory & Co., London.
  • Boer War: a wounded soldier being visited in hospital by his wife and little daughter. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph by E. H. Mills.
  • 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 group of soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • An old sailor with wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking in a tavern; below is a song about their seafaring days. Etching by I. Cruikshank, c. 1791.
  • Her Majesty Queen Victoria and entourage visiting soldiers wounded during the Boer War, in a ward at Netley Hospital. Pen and ink drawing by J. Duncan, c. 1900, after F. C. Dickinson.
  • Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
  • Boer War: a soldier reads out good news from the front as others cheer and a barber stops work. Halftone, 1900, after F. Dadd after H. Egersdorfer.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.
  • Boer War: an elderly woman sitting outside with her son who is a patient at Netley Hospital. Halftone after a photograph.
  • 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: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers waiting outside a field hospital for examination by the surgeon. Halftone after R. Thiele, c.1900.