Surgeon performing eye surgery on a patient on board a naval hospital ship with the assistance of three men. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Attendant on far left bears letters 'MO' (medical orderly) on the pocket of his overalls

Print taken from 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 12 x 16.3 cm

Envelope bears number '431' referring to numerical order of Knapp's original exhibition list kept with the negatives

Wellcome Collection 586732i