Hospital ward showing beds on board a Royal Naval hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Negative number 632 of 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 which were used in an exhibition about the sick and wounded on board men or war of various types in Royal Naval Hospital ships, ambulance trains and hospitals. 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 photopositive ; glass positive 12 x 16.4 cm

Wellcome Collection 587151i