Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.

A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.

Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

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

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.

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.

Invalided soldiers assembled in the garden of Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, c. 1855.

An armless veteran of the Hôtel des Invalides is hired as a guide for visitors, in order that he take no money from them. Coloured lithograph by Cham.

Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.

Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.

Greenwich Pensioners variously sitting or standing in the colonnade of the "Helpless ward" at Greenwich Hospital. Lithograph by S. Rayner.

Boer War: a one armed man helps a one legged man. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.

1 print : engraving ; image 7.9 x 13.9 cm

Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: soldiers outside the principal facade. Line engraving by W. Watkins, 1831, after B. Ferry.

Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

1 print : colour lithograph ; image 43.3 x 32.6 cm

Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.

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Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: soldiers outside the principal facade. Line engraving by W. Watkins, 1831, after B. Ferry.

Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.

Disabled veterans

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Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital ward with an inspection of the first wounded Japanese to arrive home. Pen and ink drawing by D. Macpherson, 1904.

Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: soldiers outside the principal facade. Line engraving by W. Watkins, 1831, after B. Ferry.

Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.

Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.

Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.

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