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  • Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.

    • Waugh, J. J.
    Reference
    22131i
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  • Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.

    • Creagh, Henry Brazier, Major, active 1912.
    Date
    1900
    Reference
    23539i
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  • The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.

    Reference
    18594i
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  • A soldier receiving treatment from the surgeon at a battlefield. Coloured lithograph by G. David after A. de Marbot.

    • Marbot, Alfred de.
    Date
    1814
    Reference
    20085i
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  • Boer War: the work of the Red Cross and medical staff with coats of arms. Reproduction of watercolours after A. Stewart and J.J. Waugh and wood engraving by A.H. Fisher, 1900.

    • Fisher, A. Hugh, 1867-1945.
    Date
    1900
    Reference
    22288i
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  • Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

    Reference
    21785i
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  • War in Egypt, Egypt: searching for the wounded and dead after the Battle of Kassassin. Wood engraving.

    Reference
    20894i
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  • Boer War: an army surgeon at work on a battlefield where many lie injured. Halftone, c. 1900.

    Date
    1900
    Reference
    23588i
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  • A wounded soldier retiring from battle. Etching by R. Blyth, 1779, after J.H. Mortimer.

    • Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779.
    Date
    15 November 1779
    Reference
    18598i
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  • Crimean War: searching for the wounded after the Battle of the Alma. Line engraving by D.J. Pound after R. Hind.

    • Hind, R.
    Reference
    20954i
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  • Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.

    • Le Par.
    Date
    [23 June 1855]
    Reference
    21052i
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  • Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.

    • Rugendas, Georg Philipp, 1666-1742.
    Reference
    24446i
    Part of
    Grosse Schlachtenszenen fuer Lothar Franz Graf von Schoenborn
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  • India: the ruins of Sammy House surrounded by scattered bones of sepoys killed in action. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

    • Beato, Felice, approximately 1825-
    Reference
    33001i
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  • A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.

    Date
    1870
    Reference
    24080i
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  • Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.

    • Louise, Princess, Duchess of Argyll, 1848-1939.
    Date
    1870
    Reference
    21922i
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  • Tending the sick and wounded after a battle. Tinted mezzotint by J.C. Rugendas after G.P. Rugendas, 1698.

    • Rugendas, Georg Philipp, 1666-1742.
    Date
    1698
    Reference
    18606i
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  • The fatal wounding of Sir Ralph Abercrombie at Alexandria. Line engraving by J. Rogers after T. Stothard.

    • Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.
    Date
    1801
    Reference
    547466i
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  • Boer War: soldiers placing stones over the graves of their comrades on the Modder River. Halftone, c. 1899, after W. W. Russell after A. C. Girdwood.

    • Girdwood, A. C., Lieutenant, active 1899.
    Date
    1899
    Reference
    23713i
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  • Boer War: a military physician bandages a wounded man in the open air, others watch. Halftone after H. M. Paget, c.1900.

    • Paget, H. M. (Henry Marriott), 1857-1936.
    Date
    [1900]
    Reference
    23494i
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  • A badly wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield on a makeshift stretcher made of bayonets. Coloured aquatint.

    Reference
    20088i
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  • A surgeon on the battlefield. Reproduction of a pen and ink drawing by C. Maurer.

    • Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.
    Date
    1594
    Reference
    18592i
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  • Soldiers being offered medical help behind the battlefield. Lithograph.

    Reference
    18616i
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  • The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1788.

    • Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815.
    Date
    30 January 1788
    Reference
    18597i
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  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded French prisoners from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving, 1870.

    Date
    1870
    Reference
    21777i
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  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.

    • Webster, William Bullock.
    Date
    18 January 1856
    Reference
    21347i
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