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Ambulance service

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Emergency Medical Services
Transport of sick and wounded

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Images from the collections

Images about Ambulance service

12 images from works
  • Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Record Room, with two women answering the telephone and writing in registers. Photograph, September 1918.
  • Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: loading up the blanket bus in Gower Mews. Photograph, September 1918.
  • Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Telephone Room, with officials in telephone booths, perhaps answering enquiries. Photograph, September 1918.
  • Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Record Room, with two women answering the telephone and writing in registers. Photograph, September 1918.
  • Sir James Cantlie and Lady Cantlie (both standing) in St. John's Ambulance uniform. Photograph by F.C. Stoate, ca. 1914/1918.
  • Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: loading up the blanket bus in Gower Mews. Photograph, September 1918.
  • A wounded soldier is found by a rescue dog who alerts the nurse and ambulancemen of their whereabouts. Coloured chromolithograph by E.A. Holloway, 1904.
  • Sir James Cantlie (standing) and Lady Cantlie (seated) in St. John's Ambulance uniform. Photograph by F.C. Stoate, ca. 1914/1918.
  • Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Deputy Director seated at his desk. Photograph, September 1918.
  • Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Petrol Room, with two officials working at tables. Photograph, September 1918.
  • Sir James Cantlie (standing) and Lady Cantlie (seated) in St. John's Ambulance uniform. Photograph by F.C. Stoate, ca. 1914/1918.
  • Sir James Cantlie and Lady Cantlie (both standing) in St. John's Ambulance uniform. Photograph by F.C. Stoate, ca. 1914/1918.

Works from the collections

23 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: loading up the blanket bus in Gower Mews. Photograph, September 1918.

    | Date: 1918 | Reference: 38807i
    • Books

    London ambulance service.

    | Date: [1970?]
    • Pictures

    Sir James Cantlie (standing) and Lady Cantlie (seated) in St. John's Ambulance uniform. Photograph by F.C. Stoate, ca. 1914/1918.

    | Date: [1914?/1918] | Reference: 561601i
    • Books

    The forgotten service : Auxiliary Ambulance Station 39, Weymouth Mews / Angela Raby.

    | Raby, Angela | Date: [1999]
    • Books
    • Online

    Report of the Ambulance Committee.

    | Great Britain. Departmental Committee on the Ambulance Service in the Metropilis. | Date: 1909
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Related topics

Ambulances
World War, 1914-1918 - Equipment and supplies
United Kingdom
Military Medicine
Transport of sick and wounded
Transportation of Patients

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