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  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Bearers in China carrying a sedan chair suspended between poles. Wood engraving.
  • Monks carrying a corpse in a religious funeral procession, passers-by pay respect. Coloured aquatint.
  • Battle of Ulundi, part of the Zulu War, South Africa: with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • Indian Rebellion: wounded soldiers convalescing at Dagshai, India. Tinted lithograph by T. Picken, 1859, after G.F. Atkinson.
  • Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.
  • Wounded officers being carried on stretchers, Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India. Coloured lithograph.
  • An ambulance corps at work in the field. Halftone.
  • World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Oil painting by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919.
  • Crimean War: Dr. Bretts' ambulance litter. Wood engraving.
  • Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
  • Patient being carried to Boston General hospital on a stretcher. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1831, after R. Goodarce.
  • Russo-Japanese War: wounded soldiers slouched on benches and on stretchers on a stone floor. Watercolour.
  • A European man in the East Indies is lying in a litter with a roof as he is being carried by four men. Engraving by Walker after Walker, 17--.
  • An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.
  • A European man in Mozambique travelling in a litter (machila) carried by four men wearing loin cloths. Line block by Max Cowper after F.L.M. Moir.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Army medical officers in the field constructing stretchers with logs and straw which are then pulled by a horse. Watercolour.
  • Crimean War: new ambulance transport service. Wood engraving.
  • A group of people standing around a man having an epileptic fit. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux.
  • Embarking sick below third cataract. Coloured lithograph by J.G. Keulemans after W.W.C. Verner.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Crimean War, England: landing the wounded at Portsmouth. Wood engraving.
  • Sepoy Rebellion: British officers travelling in panniers on the backs of camels and borne in a litter by Indian men. Tinted lithograph by W. Simpson, 1859, after G.F. Atkinson.
  • Murshidabad: monuments in memory of women who had died by sati. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.
  • A parade of soldiers marching past l'Hopital Blindé and ambulancemen. Lithograph by Raffet.
  • 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.
  • World War I: auxiliaries bringing stretchers, splints, rations and water for the Line. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Diagrams illustrating military ambulances of Europe and Africa with their interior design and basic equipment. Etching by S. Botta.