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Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

1 print : engraving ; image 7.9 x 13.9 cm

Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: soldiers outside the principal facade. Line engraving by W. Watkins, 1831, after B. Ferry.

Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

1 print : colour lithograph ; image 43.3 x 32.6 cm

Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 22.4 x 23.2 cm

A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.

Boer War: patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic while being watched by three nurses. Halftone, c.1900, after F. de Haenen.

Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.

1 drawing : wash, with gouache and pencil

Boer War: a one armed man helps a one legged man. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.

<p>Song describes how four Irishmen called Hogan, Casey, Murphy and "me" spent all their money drinking beer in a pub with an ex-Highland soldier called Patsy Callaghan, who had had his legs shot off from under his kilt when at war. To recover their solvency they got Callagahan drunk, then removed his wooden legs and false teeth, pawned them, and left Callaghan literally legless on the pub bench. His plight, depicted on the front cover of the songsheet, is regarded by all as very funny, though the speaker can't help wondering (in the words of the chorus) "What will poor Callaghan do?".</p>
<p>Portrait of Michael Nolan in character on front cover</p>

1 print : lithograph ; image 35.4 x 26 cm

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Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: soldiers outside the principal facade. Line engraving by W. Watkins, 1831, after B. Ferry.

Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.

A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.

Boer War: patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic while being watched by three nurses. Halftone, c.1900, after F. de Haenen.

Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.

Boer War: a one armed man helps a one legged man. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.

A disabled soldier has his wooden legs stolen by four Irishmen in a bar. Colour lithograph by H.G. Banks, ca. 1899.

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Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: soldiers outside the principal facade. Line engraving by W. Watkins, 1831, after B. Ferry.

Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.

A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.

Boer War: patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic while being watched by three nurses. Halftone, c.1900, after F. de Haenen.

Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.

Boer War: a one armed man helps a one legged man. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.

A disabled soldier has his wooden legs stolen by four Irishmen in a bar. Colour lithograph by H.G. Banks, ca. 1899.

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