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Print of a military physician in uniform with a horse-drawn ambulance in the background with red crosses on the side.

military and naval ephemera. Box 1.

1 chromolithograph : color illustrations ; 28 cm

A military doctor / J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd.

Invitation card designed to be handed out to French women inviting them to a dance at the English Hospital in Ruitz in the Pas de Calais area.

Military and naval ephemera. Box 1.

Commune de Ruitz : 15th Casualty Clearing Station : le personnel de l'Hôpital Anglais no.15 a l'honneur d'inviter Mlle ... à la Soirée dansante qui aura lieue le mercredi 23 avril 1919, à 7h du soir à l'Hôpital Anglais.

Leaflet promoting the ideas of the 'Association médicale internationale pour aider à la suppression de la guerre was a French anti-war organisation particularly active about 1913. This refers to events in 1919. It advocates an international police force as being the key to lasting peace. There are at least 3 variations of this leaflet.

1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm

Fac-similé du diplome, remis dès avril 1905, aux adhérents de l'Association Médicale Internationale pour aider à la suppression de la guerre : [version 1].

Fac-similé du diplome, remis dès avril 1905, aux adhérents de l'Association Médicale Internationale pour aider à la suppression de la guerre : [version 3].

Postcard showing a man in uniform, with medals (Faustin Marneffe?) sitting on a tricycle with a large headlight. Probably just after the first world war. A woman, four children and two dogs stand around him, a house behind. He presumably lost the use of his legs during the war and this provides him with mobility.

Faustin Marneffe : grand mutilé invalide de guerre, 446, l'Hermite, Braine-l'Alleud.

Humorous postcard showing a young man in a bowler hat carrying his clothes, having just been givien a physical examination by the Medical Board of the British Army. Two officers are shown behind him. Undated, but this copy was sent on 12 March 1917.

Comique series

"Comique" series

They hopped me here, they hopped me there until I felt quite balmy, they felt my pulse an' tol me to 'Cough!' an' passed me into the army / Inter-Art Co.

Humorous postcard showing a soldier 'kissing' a Red Cross nurse. The humour is in the fact that both are wearing gas masks. As is the small dog by her side.

"Their lips met in one passionate kiss" / FN.

Postcard showing a young man on a stretcher being loaded onto a train by two men, about to be transported back to England. Two men in uniform are on either side of him and two nurses behind. Probably first world war.

A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.

Humorous postcard showing a Red Cross dog with a raised hind leg urinating on a German helmet.

Le chien sanitaire ... et patriote ! / Édition Lorraine.

Postcard showing a Red Cross ambulance, 4 soldiers and 7 "lady workers" in front of a relief station during World War 1, some time after 1916.

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A military doctor / J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd.

Commune de Ruitz : 15th Casualty Clearing Station : le personnel de l'Hôpital Anglais no.15 a l'honneur d'inviter Mlle ... à la Soirée dansante qui aura lieue le mercredi 23 avril 1919, à 7h du soir à l'Hôpital Anglais.

Fac-similé du diplome, remis dès avril 1905, aux adhérents de l'Association Médicale Internationale pour aider à la suppression de la guerre : [version 1].

Fac-similé du diplome, remis dès avril 1905, aux adhérents de l'Association Médicale Internationale pour aider à la suppression de la guerre : [version 3].

Faustin Marneffe : grand mutilé invalide de guerre, 446, l'Hermite, Braine-l'Alleud.

They hopped me here, they hopped me there until I felt quite balmy, they felt my pulse an' tol me to 'Cough!' an' passed me into the army / Inter-Art Co.

"Their lips met in one passionate kiss" / FN.

A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.

Le chien sanitaire ... et patriote ! / Édition Lorraine.

One of our relief stations with British voluntary lady workers / British Committee of the French Red Cross.

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A military doctor / J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd.

Commune de Ruitz : 15th Casualty Clearing Station : le personnel de l'Hôpital Anglais no.15 a l'honneur d'inviter Mlle ... à la Soirée dansante qui aura lieue le mercredi 23 avril 1919, à 7h du soir à l'Hôpital Anglais.

Fac-similé du diplome, remis dès avril 1905, aux adhérents de l'Association Médicale Internationale pour aider à la suppression de la guerre : [version 1].

Fac-similé du diplome, remis dès avril 1905, aux adhérents de l'Association Médicale Internationale pour aider à la suppression de la guerre : [version 3].

Faustin Marneffe : grand mutilé invalide de guerre, 446, l'Hermite, Braine-l'Alleud.

They hopped me here, they hopped me there until I felt quite balmy, they felt my pulse an' tol me to 'Cough!' an' passed me into the army / Inter-Art Co.

"Their lips met in one passionate kiss" / FN.

A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.

Le chien sanitaire ... et patriote ! / Édition Lorraine.

One of our relief stations with British voluntary lady workers / British Committee of the French Red Cross.

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