Rear view of Royal Naval ambulance truck bearing registration number KT.9793 showing beds for the wounded patients. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

This particular ambulance is inscribed 'presented to the Royal Navy (by the) United Provinces of India War fund' according to catalogue no. 586192i

Reproduced as no. 133 within an album also donated by Knapp this catalogue no. 573292i

Negative number unknown in Knapp's original exhibition list

One of a series of glass negatives collected by Surgeon Commander Montague Henry Knapp, Hon. Director of the Naval Medical Section of the Imperial War Museum and exhibited at Crystal Palace in June 1920. Correspondence in the Wellcome Archives indicates that Knapp (as Hon. Director and organiser for the IWM) was involved in the transfer of surplus naval and military medical material from the Imperial War Museum to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, in setting up exhibits, and in acquiring other materials for the Wellcome collections. Material specifically relating to Knapp's activities in setting up the Naval Warfare Section in the Imperial War Museum have been transferred to the IWM.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1919]

1 photograph : glass photonegative ; glass negative 8.2 x 11 cm

Wellcome Collection 586193i