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  • 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.
  • Transport of the wounded. The Great Battle: wounded British and German brought in.
  • In a British Hospital-Train. Drawing from official photographs.
  • A labour-saving device. The Automatic Mono-Wheel strecher-carrier.
  • A dramatic episode at Villers-Bretonneux. dressing station ordelies carrying wounded to the cellers.
  • With Indians among the bearers; the loading of the wounded.
  • Ambulance being drawn by a team of camels, 1917.
  • A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).
  • A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).
  • Ambulance des 4e et 6e divisions : d'après M. Durand-Brager / J. Gaildrau.
  • A treatise on the transport of sick and wounded troops / by T. Longmore.
  • A treatise on the transport of sick and wounded troops / by T. Longmore.
  • Spanish soldiers returning from the fighting line : the above picture shows wounded Spanish soldiers being conveyed to the hospital during the fighting now taking place at Melilla between the Spanish troops and the Moorish tribesmen.
  • Spanish soldiers returning from the fighting line : the above picture shows wounded Spanish soldiers being conveyed to the hospital during the fighting now taking place at Melilla between the Spanish troops and the Moorish tribesmen.
  • Transporting artillery by boat across the river Beas, Himachal Pradesh. Coloured lithograph after Alexander Jack, c. 1847.
  • Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.
  • The mule litter ambulance used at the battle of Mt. Dajo in the Philippines / by William N. Armiger (late of the sixth United States Infantry).
  • The mule litter ambulance used at the battle of Mt. Dajo in the Philippines / by William N. Armiger (late of the sixth United States Infantry).
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • Army medical officers in the field constructing stretchers with logs and straw which are then pulled by a horse. Watercolour.
  • Diagrams illustrating military ambulances of Europe and Africa with their interior design and basic equipment. Etching by S. Botta.
  • Diagrams illustrating military ambulances of Europe and Africa with their interior design and basic equipment. Etching by S. Botta.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers carrying wounded men on a stretcher. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.
  • Boer War: wounded army officers on the deck of a hospital ship, and a piece from an armoured train. Halftone, c. 1900.