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  • 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.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: charitable ladies visiting hospital patients with gifts of cigarettes and cakes. Coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • World War I: the Kaiser as a chemist trying to dissolve the Allies but finding that his solvents do not work. Ink drawing by J. Walker, 1916.
  • World War I: the Kaiser as a chemist trying to dissolve the Allies but finding that his solvents do not work. Ink drawing by J. Walker, 1916.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: staff, visitors and patients enjoying a concert, the singer stands on a table. Lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • The sword of Damocles hangs over a laurel wreath, representing complacency about tuberculosis in France after World War I. Colour lithograph after G. Capon and G. Dorival, 1918.
  • A kneeling camel, with a cacolet attached to its back: used to transport injured soldiers during World War I. Photograph copied from a print by Dr. Balfour, 1916.
  • World War I: a convalescent soldier in a walking frame is running at speed while smoking a cigarette, endangering an older man and woman. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.
  • A French and a British sailor clasping hands in front of the spirit of Lord Nelson; representing Anglo-French naval cooperation in World War I. Colour process print, 191-.
  • A French and a British sailor clasping hands in front of the spirit of Lord Nelson; representing Anglo-French naval cooperation in World War I. Colour process print, 191-.
  • A British ward in the World War I hospital for British and French interned soldiers, at Lucerne, Switzerland: interior view, showing injured soldiers attended by two nuns. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three staff listen for a patient's heart beat and a doctor reads a man's pulse. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at a drunken dinner table and two bedridden patients with some meagre chips. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • World War I: a long line of ambulances of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the walking wounded proceeding through a pass. Gouache in grisaille by W. Hatherell, ca. 1917.
  • World War I: a horse used for military purposes has collapsed on a road, and another horse is being cared for by a military veterinarian officer. Photograph of drawing by F. Matania, ca. 1917.
  • The blue badge of courage: a soldier wounded in World War I holding crutches with a bandage over his head is feeding sea-gulls by a lake. Colour process print after E. Canziani, ca. 1917.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: at 5.30 am, breakfast is brought to a sleepy ward and the mail is delivered to an eager patient. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Italian Red Cross Hospital at Arta during World War I: the loggia, where a military patient is shown being admitted to the hospital on a stretcher, while a man parks a bicycle in the foreground. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A kneeling camel, with a cacolet attached to its back, used to transport injured soldiers during World War I: a western military man is shown standing beside the camel, with desert tents seen pitched in the background. Photograph copied from a print by Dr. Balfour, 1916.
  • A British manufacturer is painting advertising boards inscribed "Made in Canada", "Made in England" and "Made in the British Empire", while a board saying "Made in Germany" is consigned to a garbage can; representing the embargo on German trade in British territories in World War I. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • World War One: soldier looked after by nurses
  • World War One, two nurses attending to a patient
  • World War One: three nurses dress the wounds of a patient on a hospital ward. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • The R. N. A. Hospital, Truro: First World War military convalescents and nurses: group portrait. Photograph, 1916.