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  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.
  • Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.
  • An American serviceman clutching the letters "VD" like prison-bars from which he yearns to be released. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • "When night sets in the sun is down" : from the painting by R. Caton Woodville : post card / National Institute for the Blind.
  • Boer War: the reading-room at the field hospital, Wynberg, South Africa. Halftone, 1900, after R. Thomas.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing in the wounded to an open air Japanese field hospital. Wash drawing by G. Soper, 1904, after a photograph by J. Ruddiman Johnston.
  • George Washington on his deathbed, 1799. Coloured engraving by J. Rodgers after Chapin, 1799.
  • Franco-Prussian War: soldiers convalescing in the Palais Royale Military hospital. Etching by H. Tissot, 1870.
  • The resurrected Christ rises over terrified soldiers. Engraving after A. Dürer, 1512.
  • Served with honour and was disabled in the Great War : Honourably discharged on ...
  • Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.
  • The cross bearing Christ is hoisted up before a multitude of lamenters and soldiers. Engraving by N-H. Tardieu after B. Audran after C. le Brun.
  • Cupid presides over a group of naked women who sit separated from groups of yearning men; symbolising the passion of love. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • The last moments of Napoleon Bonaparte at St Helena, 1821. Engraving by Bovinet and Couché after Gudin.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrates his trust in his physician Philip by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him even after receiving a letter alleging that Philip is trying to poison him. Drawing by or after E. Le Sueur, 16--.
  • Soldiers posing for a group portrait outside a large building. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Edith Cavell wearing Red Cross uniform lying dead on the floor as her spirit rises in the form of an angel. Process print after A. Rosell, ca. 1915.
  • Boer War: Red Cross hospital train arriving at Durban. Process print by C.H. after F.C. Harrison after F. Dadd, 1899.
  • Ashanti War, Ghana, 1873: a British soldier resting beneath a mosquito net in a tropical landscape. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A surgeon is widening the chest wound of a soldier in order to remove an arrow, they are surrounded by a military encampment and a raging battle. Process print after a drawing by C. Maurer, c. 1594.
  • Theodore (Téwodros) II, Emperor of Ethiopia of Ethiopia, on his death bed. Lithograph by James Ferguson after C.F. James.
  • Army physicians vaccinating soldiers below decks on the SS. Bathhurst. Process print by C. Henschel after a drawing by C. Staniland after A. Cox.
  • Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.
  • Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.
  • Soldiers in the 45th Rattray's Sikhs infantry regiment. Colour process print after A.C. Lovett, 191-.
  • A surgeon is widening the chest wound of a soldier in order to remove an arrow, they are surrounded by a military encampment and a raging battle. Process print after a drawing by C. Maurer, c. 1594.
  • A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.