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Five senior French army officers in military dress: two administrators, the chief surgeon, a pharmacist and a physician, ca. 1804. Coloured lithograph by G. David, ca. 1858, after A. de Marbot.

Seven uniformed senior British army staff, two of whom are mounted. Chromolithograph, c. 1880.

A uniformed German army doctor arriving at the scene of an accident. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

Crimean War: Turkish ambulancemen conveying the sick to Balaclava. Wood engraving.

Crimean War: ambulance for the wounded. Wood engraving.

Boer War: a British officer's pony looking at the bones of a Boer's pony killed by a shell. Halftone, c. 1900, after S. S. Lucas after a photograph by E. Blake Knox.

War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.

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

Russo-Turkish War: wounded Russian soldiers being brought back to the rear at the siege of Plevna. Wood engraving by C.Roberts after I. Montagu, 1877.

Crimean War: the siege of Sebastopol, collecting the wounded using Dr. Smith's new hospital ambulances. Wood engraving.

Crimean War: frostbitten soldiers on their way to Balaclava. Wood engraving.

Boer War: Colonel Baden-Powell inspecting a sick horse at a military camp in Mafeking (Mahikeng). Process print by J.Swain & Son after G. Scott after D. Taylor.

Holloway's Indian & colonial series : 1st Punjab cavalry : Holloway's pills & ointment.

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.

Koomaylee Pass, Ethiopia: watering-place during the Abyssinian expedition. Coloured wood engraving by J.M.

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War horses

Images from the collections

Images about War horses

Works from the collections

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

Holloway's Indian & colonial series : 1st Punjab cavalry : Holloway's pills & ointment.

War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.

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.

Koomaylee Pass, Ethiopia: watering-place during the Abyssinian expedition. Coloured wood engraving by J.M.

War horses

Images from the collections

Images about War horses

Works from the collections

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

Holloway's Indian & colonial series : 1st Punjab cavalry : Holloway's pills & ointment.

War in Egypt, Egypt: soldiers using the new eye protection and head gear. Wood engraving by W.J. Palmer after W.H. Overend.

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.

Koomaylee Pass, Ethiopia: watering-place during the Abyssinian expedition. Coloured wood engraving by J.M.

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