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  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Russo-Japanese War: rows of wounded soldiers in a temporary dressing station at Hsuchiakou, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • First Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896: soldiers returing from Eritrea being taken into hospital in Naples. Process print by Meisenbach after J. Fortuné Nott after H. Lanos.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing the wounded on foot and stretcher through Kaiping, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • A woman in Japan being carried in a litter through the mountains by two men. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • Boer War: soldiers saluting the wounded off the battlefield at Modder River, 1899. Process print after R. Caton-Woodville, 1899.
  • A badly wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield on a makeshift stretcher made of bayonets. Coloured aquatint.
  • Transport of injured people in civil defence: use of stretchers. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Three bearers placing patient on stretcher / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • Boer War: the work of the Red Cross and medical staff with coats of arms. Reproduction of watercolours after A. Stewart and J.J. Waugh and wood engraving by A.H. Fisher, 1900.
  • Crimean War: arrival of wounded at Kalafat from Citate. Wood engraving.
  • Infirmary, Liverpool, Merseyside: a patient being carried on a stretcher along Brownlow Street. Line engraving by J.B. Allen after T. Allom.
  • Sir Gerald Graham directing the hoisting of patients on board a hospital ship, Sudan. Wood engraving by J. Nash after C.E. Fripp, 1885.
  • The War in Egypt: hoisting invalids on board a hospital ship. Wood engraving.
  • A paralysed man is lowered down through the roof so Christ can reach him through the crowds. Wood engraving by A. Gaber.
  • The paralytic is brought on a stretcher to Christ. Engraving by P. Lightfoot after J.B. Jouvenet.
  • Two travellers and a patient on a stretcher travel towards the baths at Cauquenes, Chile. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf.
  • Eastern gate of the Jami Masjid at Delhi, India. Coloured aquatint by Thomas Daniell, 1795.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
  • 8th Xhosa War: British soldiers bearing a wounded man on a stretcher and supplies through jungle. Lithograph, ca. 1852.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • The visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Lord Hunsdon (for his marriage at Blackfriars in 1600?). Engraving by G. Vertue after R. Peake, 1742.
  • Boer War: removing the wounded after the Battle of Elandslaagte. Process print after W. Devar.
  • 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.
  • China: a litter or palanquin carrying a woman is being transported by two mules across a stream in a rocky pass. Wood engraving by E. Froment after W. Small.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland. Wood engraving by Butterworth and Heath.
  • A group of people standing around a man having an epileptic fit. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • Drills and exercises : amendments (No. 1) / by command of the Army Council, the War Office.
  • Boer War: volunteer ambulance at work. Process print after A. Kemp Tebby after a photograph.
  • A corpse is lifted from the back of a wagon during the 1832 cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.