Wounded patients lying on stretchers at a dressing station on board H.M.S. Erebus, a monitor ship in Russia. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Also appears as no. 459 and 460, an album of photographs of naval military medicine donated by Knapp December 1933 - see this catalogue 573292i

Negative number 458 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 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 : photoprint ; glass negative 10 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection 586101i