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  • The sick are brought to Christ at Gennesaret by the sea. Etching, 1834, after J-B. Jouvenet.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Four men carrying a long palanquin, preceded by guards and attendants. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Diagrams illustrating military ambulances of Europe and Africa with their interior design and basic equipment. Etching by S. Botta.
  • Congo: one man is being carried in a litter and another on a seat suspended from sticks. Engraving by Taylor after S. Wale.
  • Crimean War: ambulance men removing the wounded from the Battle of Sebastopol. Wood engraving.
  • World War One: a mounted Cossack ambulance convoy using horses as stretcher-bearers. Halftone after F. de Haenen, 1916, after a sketch by H. Seppings Wright.
  • A woman being carried through the streets of Yokohama in a litter borne by two men. Wood engraving by F. Regamey, 1872.
  • The War in Egypt, Egypt: patients being taken on board one of the Nile steamers. Process print after S.P. Hall after H.H.S. Pearse.
  • An ambulance corps in the field gathering by T. [S.] Crowther and attending to wounded men. Pen and ink drawing.
  • 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.
  • Crimean War: turkish ambulance men collecting the wounded from the battlefield. Wood engraving.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: burying the dead. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers carrying wounded men on a stretcher. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.
  • Boer War: sorting the dead from the wounded at Spion Kop. Process print after A. Forestier after F. Villiers.
  • 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.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded soldiers being treated in a church in Sedan. Wood engraving by J. Swain after F. Barnard, 1870.
  • Infirmary, Liverpool, Merseyside: a patient being carried on a stretcher along Brownlow Street. Line engraving by J.B. Allen after T. Allom.
  • The paralytic is brought on a stretcher to Christ. Engraving by Clark and Pine, ca. 1719.
  • A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.
  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
  • Crimean War: arrival of wounded at Kalafat from Citate. Wood engraving.
  • Boer War: ambulance men taking the wounded into hospital at the entrance. Reproduction after a watercolour.
  • World War I: an exhibition poster with illustration of the Royal Army Medical Corps on active service. Colour halftone, 1968, after a painting by H. Mackey.
  • Patient being carried to Boston General hospital on a stretcher. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1831, after R. Goodarce.
  • Russo-Japanese War: taking wounded men on stretchers off the hospital ship "Kobe Maru". Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson, 1904.
  • World War One: two stretcher bearers removing a wounded man under fire. Wash painting, c. 1916.
  • Ambulancemen picking up the wounded from a battlefield. Line engraving.
  • Serbo-Bulgarian War: arrival of wounded to Belgrade from Slivnitza. Wood engraving by J.N. Schönberg, 1885.