Person who has served in the armed forces

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Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.

Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.

A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.

Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: panoramic view. Line engraving.

A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.

[5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].

Three uniformed German army officers in the Kingdom of Württemberg, two from the disabled soldiers corps. Coloured lithograph by H.M.D. Monten, ca. 1838.

Boer War: soldiers relaxing by Southampton Water with a view across the estuary to Netley Hospital. Halftone after a photograph by W. Gregory & Co., London.

Hôtel des Invalides, Paris. Tinted lithograph by Aubrun after himself.

Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: two brothers in the garden. Etching by G.H.M. Sumner.

Faustin Marneffe : grand mutilé invalide de guerre, 446, l'Hermite, Braine-l'Alleud.

Crimean War: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert inspecting wounded guards at Buckingham Palace. Wood engraving by Smyth after [J.G.].

War's waste : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.

Paris: the Barriere de l'Etoile, with the Military School in the background. Etching.

Gulf War illnesses : dealing with the uncertainties / [primary authors, Peter Border, Michael Norton].

Broken men : shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 / Fiona Reid.

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Veterans

Images from the collections

Images referencing Veterans

Works from the collections

War's waste : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.

Paris: the Barriere de l'Etoile, with the Military School in the background. Etching.

Gulf War illnesses : dealing with the uncertainties / [primary authors, Peter Border, Michael Norton].

Broken men : shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 / Fiona Reid.

Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: two brothers in the garden. Etching by G.H.M. Sumner.

Veterans

Images from the collections

Images referencing Veterans

Works from the collections

War's waste : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.

Paris: the Barriere de l'Etoile, with the Military School in the background. Etching.

Gulf War illnesses : dealing with the uncertainties / [primary authors, Peter Border, Michael Norton].

Broken men : shell shock, treatment and recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 / Fiona Reid.

Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire: two brothers in the garden. Etching by G.H.M. Sumner.

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