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  • Boer War: wounded soldiers awaiting for medical help in the cold and damp. Watercolour by L. Calkin, 1899.
  • Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.
  • Boer War: marquees and patients of the field hospital at Wynberg, South Africa. Halftone, 1900, after J. Bruton.
  • Boer War: English and French ambulance convoys crossing Transvaal territory. Halftone after Gordon Browne after C.E. Fripp.
  • Boer War: the Alexandra ward on board the "Princess of Wales" hospital ship. Halftone, c.1900, after Gregory.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.
  • Boer War: a British officer on a battlefield demanding possession of the wounded from the Boers. Halftone, 1900, after R. M. Paxton after E. Prater.
  • Boer War: bringing the wounded down from Spion Kop. Process print after H.M. Paget after A.E.C..
  • Boer War: British soldiers outside their tent in camp at Chieveley, eating pineapples. Halftone, c. 1900, after G. Browne.
  • Boer War: soldiers' graves at Rondesbosch decorated with floral tributes for Easter. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. S. Smith.
  • Boer War: a wounded man addresses a superior officer seated at his bedside. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.
  • Boer War: showing the work of the ambulance men and transport of the wounded. Process print after F. Theamen?.
  • Boer War: a group of soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • Boer War: a group of wounded war veterans at the docks in England. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph.
  • Boer War: a nurse lifts the head of a wounded man lying in a hospital ward. Halftone, c.1900.
  • Boer War: sorting the dead from the wounded at Spion Kop. Process print after A. Forestier after F. Villiers.
  • Boer War: an army officer examines the scarred backs of whipped African deserters. Halftone after J. Finnemore after E. Prater.
  • Boer War: collecting the wounded from the battlefield using newly invented ambulance transport. Reproduction after a watercolour by F. Craig.
  • Boer War: a hospital ward with soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers returning to Ladysmith camp after a battle. Reproduction after a watercolour by F. Dadd after photograph.
  • Boer War: a full military hospital ward in a church at Mafeteng, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after M. Maseru.
  • Boer War: soldiers saluting the wounded off the battlefield at Modder River, 1899. Process print after R. Caton-Woodville, 1899.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers waiting outside a field hospital for examination by the surgeon. Halftone after R. Thiele, c.1900.
  • Boer War: a group of nuns outside the military hospital at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Emerson Neilly.
  • Boer War: a large crowd in Cape Town on hearing news of the relief of Kimberley. Halftone, 1900, after J. Bruton.
  • Boer War: a casualty of the Battle of Modder River being loaded onto an ambulance. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, 1900.
  • Boer War: an elderly woman sitting outside with her son who is a patient at Netley Hospital. Halftone after a photograph.
  • Boer War: the operating theatre of a hospital ship in which stands a naval man. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson, 1899.
  • Boer War: the work of the Natal volunteer ambulance force. Reproduction after a photograph by A.L. Twite after F. Dadd.
  • Boer War: soldiers in camp driving off a swarm of locusts with anything to hand. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Paget.