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  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • 8th Xhosa War: the funeral of a British war victim under torchlight on the field. Lithograph, ca. 1852.
  • World War One: two stretcher bearers removing a wounded man under fire. Wash painting, c. 1916.
  • World War One: two scenes from a hospital ship, a burial service and slightly wounded men on deck. Two halftones, c. 1916, after photographs.
  • Napoléon Bonaparte saluting wounded enemy soldiers. Aquatint by Gordien, 1828, after J.B. Debret.
  • First World War: two soldiers, one badly wounded, being comforted on the battlefield by a vision of Christ. Colour halftone after G. Hillyard Swinstead, 1915.
  • Boer War: an army surgeon at work on a battlefield where many lie injured. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • Boer War: a chaplain administering the Sacrament to a dying soldier on a battlefield. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. J. Waugh.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing in the wounded to an open air Japanese field hospital. Wash drawing by G. Soper, 1904, after a photograph by J. Ruddiman Johnston.
  • Russo-Japanese War: wounded Japanese soldiers lying in the Kaiping hospital. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Russo-Japanese War: Japanese soldiers entering a bombed fort to find dead and wounded men. Halftone, c. 1905, after C. M. Sheldon, from photographs.
  • Schleswig-Holstein War: an ambulance arriving at a battlefield in Düppel 18 April 1864. Lithograph by W. Funke, 1864.
  • An ambulance corps in the field gathering by T. [S.] Crowther and attending to wounded men. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing the wounded on foot and stretcher through Kaiping, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Russo-Japanese War: three wounded Russian soldiers in the Kaiping hospital, two in bed. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Battle of Ratisbon: Napoleon, shot in the ankle, mounts his horse to join battle before the dressing of the wound is finished. Coloured engraving after C. Gautherot, 1828.
  • Doctors at work during a storm on a battlefield at Sinankeui, China. Wood engraving after W. Small.
  • A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.
  • Boer War: a group of soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • Russo-Japanese War: patients lying on the floor in the Japanese field hospital at Antung. Halftone after A. Michael, 1904.
  • An ambulance corps at work in the field. Halftone.
  • James M'Gillivray, a man shot in the shoulder in the siege of Nijmegen (1794): the shot developed into an ulcer which was cured by John Bell. Coloured stipple etching by J. Stewart after J. Bell, ca. 1826.
  • 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.
  • Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.
  • A uniformed German army doctor treats a wounded soldier on a hilltop while others assist and stand nearby. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
  • A German army medical officer treating a wounded man who is supported by a third soldier, in the open air. Coloured lithograph, c.1870.
  • Austro-Prussian War: the Prussian King William I visiting wounded soldiers lying in a barn. Lithograph after H. Jenny, ca. 1866.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.
  • 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.