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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.
Negative number 996 in Knapp's original exhibition list

1 photograph : glass photonegative ; glass negative 12.3 x 16.4 cm

Medical staff on board a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Negative number 993 in Knapp's original exhibition list
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.

Medical officers tending the leg of a wounded reclined patient on board a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

To alleviate the spread of infection on board hospital ships it was essential to disinfect the ship regularly. Sick-berth attendants were responsible for this task
Negative number 132 in Knapp's original exhibition list
Knapp devoted much of his time in retirement to the welfare of the men who served in the sick-berth branch of the Royal Navy. He fought for their right to be automatically admitted to the state register of nurses (SRN)
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.

1 photograph : glass photonegative ; glass negative 8.2 x 11 cm

Royal Naval personnel in anti-gas protective gear on the hospital ship H.M.S. Warrior. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.

Going down the river to the ships at Long Reach : being extracts from the reports of Chas. Thomson, Engineer Superintendent of the ambulance steamers 1885-1904. Part one / by John Burne.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 23.6 x 34.1 cm

Crimean War: the Belleisle Hospital Ship taking provisions on board. Wood engraving.

The War in Egypt: hoisting invalids on board a hospital ship. Wood engraving.

Positive number 51 in Knapp's original exhibition list
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.

1 photograph : glass photonegative ; glass negative 12 x 16.3 cm

Dental surgery on board the hospital ship, H.M.S. Valiant. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

"SS Joseph & Sarah Miles (LO175) was a ‘mission ship’, constructed for the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen (Fishermen's Mission) and operated from 1902 until 1930. She acted as a hospital ship during the Dogger Bank incident (also known as the Russian Outrage) on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Russian Baltic Fleet mistook a British trawler fleet for the Imperial Japanese Navy and fired on them in the North Sea."--Wikipedia

Russo-Japanese war: the hospital ship Joseph & Sarah Miles arrives in Hull (?) bringing the bodies of British trawlermen injured or killed by Russian warships in the Dogger Bank Incident. Ink drawing by A. Kemp Tebby, 1904.

1 print : lithograph, with printing inks ; image 11.7 x 19.3 cm

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Medical staff on board a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Medical officers tending the leg of a wounded reclined patient on board a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Royal Naval personnel in anti-gas protective gear on the hospital ship H.M.S. Warrior. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.

Going down the river to the ships at Long Reach : being extracts from the reports of Chas. Thomson, Engineer Superintendent of the ambulance steamers 1885-1904. Part one / by John Burne.

Crimean War: the Belleisle Hospital Ship taking provisions on board. Wood engraving.

The War in Egypt: hoisting invalids on board a hospital ship. Wood engraving.

Dental surgery on board the hospital ship, H.M.S. Valiant. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Russo-Japanese war: the hospital ship Joseph & Sarah Miles arrives in Hull (?) bringing the bodies of British trawlermen injured or killed by Russian warships in the Dogger Bank Incident. Ink drawing by A. Kemp Tebby, 1904.

Embarking sick below third cataract. Coloured lithograph by J.G. Keulemans after W.W.C. Verner.

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Medical staff on board a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Medical officers tending the leg of a wounded reclined patient on board a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Royal Naval personnel in anti-gas protective gear on the hospital ship H.M.S. Warrior. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.

Going down the river to the ships at Long Reach : being extracts from the reports of Chas. Thomson, Engineer Superintendent of the ambulance steamers 1885-1904. Part one / by John Burne.

Crimean War: the Belleisle Hospital Ship taking provisions on board. Wood engraving.

The War in Egypt: hoisting invalids on board a hospital ship. Wood engraving.

Dental surgery on board the hospital ship, H.M.S. Valiant. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Russo-Japanese war: the hospital ship Joseph & Sarah Miles arrives in Hull (?) bringing the bodies of British trawlermen injured or killed by Russian warships in the Dogger Bank Incident. Ink drawing by A. Kemp Tebby, 1904.

Embarking sick below third cataract. Coloured lithograph by J.G. Keulemans after W.W.C. Verner.

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