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  • Three old veterans, two sitting, one standing. Pencil drawing.
  • A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.
  • Veterans watching and participating in a game of bowls. Lithograph by A. Collette, 1853, after E. de Frenne.
  • Two drunken war veterans staggering along arm-in-arm. Coloured lithograph by E. Purcell.
  • Boer War: a group of wounded war veterans at the docks in England. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph.
  • Two uniformed war veterans with a young soldier by a statue in the Siegesallee, Berlin. Coloured lithograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
  • Two uniformed war veterans with a young soldier by a statue in the Siegesallee, Berlin. Coloured lithograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
  • A veteran French soldier or sailor. Photogravure by Goupil & Cie., 1873, after M. Fortuny y Marsal, 1869.
  • The statue of Florence Nightingale in Waterloo Place, Westminster, with a veteran of the Crimean War and children. Drawing by John Byam Shaw.
  • A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.
  • A veteran of Hotel des Invalides resists gout on account of his formidable alcohol consumption. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • An armless veteran of the Hôtel des Invalides is hired as a guide for visitors, in order that he take no money from them. Coloured lithograph by Cham.
  • A veteran soldier with a pair of crutches is sitting on a bench talking to a young woman who has brought him some refreshment. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1825.
  • Two disabled veteran sailors, employed by an admiral as messengers, delivering a letter to the servant at the front door of a town-house. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1790.
  • A pregnant woman leading a donkey on which a discharged veteran, who has lost both his legs, is sitting carrying one of their children in a bucket. Etching with engraving by J. Caldwell after J. Collet, 1775.
  • A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • Four invalided soldiers from the hospital barracks at Brompton, London. Wood engraving.
  • The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Ireland: recreation room. Reproduction of a photograph by C.H.S. after G.M. Roche.
  • A soldier returns and is greeted with great affection by his wife and child. Stipple engraving by L. Darcis after J.B. Isabey.
  • A soldier unexpectedly arrives home from the wars and is greeted with surprise by his family. Engraving by J. Goodyear after Miss L. Sharpe.
  • Three uniformed German army officers in the Kingdom of Württemberg, two from the disabled soldiers corps. Coloured lithograph by H.M.D. Monten, ca. 1838.
  • Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: two brothers in the garden. Etching by G.H.M. Sumner.
  • 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 soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • Paris: the Barriere de l'Etoile, with the Military School in the background. Etching.
  • A ward in a military hospital showing two convalescents and two bed-ridden patients. Wood engraving after Cham, 1870.
  • Boer War: a one armed man helps a one legged man. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.
  • An old Napoleonic soldier sits dreaming in his armchair with pipe in hand, below a poem entitled "À ma pipe". Engraving after N.-T. Charlet.
  • An old Napoleonic soldier sits dreaming in his armchair with pipe in hand, below a poem entitled "À ma pipe". Engraving after N.-T. Charlet.