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Concept

Transport of sick and wounded

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  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.
  • A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • Red Cross workers carrying wounded bugler into hospital / Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.
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    Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

    Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857. | Date: 1820 | Reference: 24451i
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    Ueber den Transport der im Felde Verwundeten und Kranken / von Th. Billroth und J.v. Mundy. Nebst den Verhandlungen der auf Einladung der Herren Billroth, v. Mundy und Wittelshöfer im Sanitäts-Pavillon der Wiener Weltausstelung 1873 vom 6.-9. October versammelten internationalen Privat-Conferenz über Verbesserung der Pflege der im Felde Verwundeten und Kranken. 1. Abth.

    Billroth, Theodor, 1829-1894. | Date: [1874]
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    A horse-drawn military ambulance, c. 1850, with one patient being carried on a stretcher. Coloured pencil drawing.

    | Date: 1850 | Reference: 24422i
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    Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.

    Creagh, Henry Brazier, Major, active 1912. | Date: 1900 | Reference: 23539i
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    A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).

    | Date: [1905?]
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