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  • 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.
  • Horse and stretcher transport, World War I
  • Horse ambulance at Ypres, World War I
  • World War One: a horse is transporting a wounded man on a sledge. Watercolour by E. Matania, ca. 1918.
  • World War One: a horse is transporting a wounded man on a sledge. Watercolour by E. Matania, ca. 1918.
  • 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 R.A.M.C. on parade before the outbreak of war. Note the horse-drawn ambulance of South African type. They began to be replaced by motor ambulances during the first year of the war.
  • Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.
  • Boer War: Colonel Baden-Powell inspecting a sick horse at a military camp in Mafeking (Mahikeng). Process print by J.Swain & Son after G. Scott after D. Taylor.
  • Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.
  • Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.
  • Doctor Rock, a vendor of medicines, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd at Kennington common: John and Charles Wesley are preaching in the background. Engraving, 1743.
  • Doctor Rock, a vendor of medicines, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd at Kennington common: John and Charles Wesley are preaching in the background. Engraving, 1743.
  • Crowds of people are thronging the streets of Westminster, with traders hawking their wares and others arguing, and so much noise and bustle the horse and carriage is nearly overturned. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after "Nathaniel NoParty", 1812.
  • A battle between British and Indians. Gouache drawing.
  • Afghan soldiers caught between allied troops in the Anglo-Afghan war, 1839-42. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • A battlefield littered with corpses of soldiers and carcasses of horses during a fierce cavalry battle. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Boer War: a British officer's pony looking at the bones of a Boer's pony killed by a shell. Halftone, c. 1900, after S. S. Lucas after a photograph by E. Blake Knox.
  • A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.
  • Crimean War: French ambulances before Sebastopol. Wood engraving.
  • Crimean War: French ambulances before Sebastopol. Wood engraving.
  • Crimean War: carrying the wounded to Balaklava, Russia. Wood engraving.
  • War in Egypt, Egypt: searching for the wounded and dead after the Battle of Kassassin. Wood engraving.
  • Crimean War: ambulance for the wounded. Wood engraving.
  • Crimean War: frostbitten soldiers on their way to Balaclava. Wood engraving.
  • A defeated hussar on the battlefield, whose horse has been killed while pulling a gun mounted on a chassis; a woman sympathizes. Mezzotint by V. Green after G. Carter, 1776.
  • Crimean War: the siege of Sebastopol, collecting the wounded using Dr. Smith's new hospital ambulances. Wood engraving.
  • The War in Egypt: the Calabria ship interior. Wood engraving by W.P.
  • Crimean War: Turkish ambulancemen conveying the sick to Balaclava. Wood engraving.