Military classification used for military persons wounded by enemy action

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Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.

The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Engraving by F. Legat, 1805, after T. Stothard.

Crimean War: ambulance men collecting the wounded after the Battle of Inkermann. Wood engraving.

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.

Franco-Prussian War: French wounded being treated at Metz. Wood engraving by J.W.B.

Serbo-Bulgarian War: wounded Russian soldiers begging ambulance men to be taken away from the battlefield. Wood engraving.

Boer War: Red Cross ambulance cars at Pretoria station for the wounded Boers. Reproduction after a sketch by G. Soper after Leoff.

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

Sudan: fighting, medical and social activity. Wood engraving and process print by J.F.W. after M. Prior and W.S. Perry.

Austro-Prussian War: the Prussian King William I visiting wounded soldiers lying in a barn. Lithograph after H. Jenny, ca. 1866.

Boer War: Indians carrying a wounded soldier in a dhoolie. Process print.

Russo-Japanese War: wounded men in a tent at the depot hospital at Ting-chia-chuang, China. Collotype, c. 1905.

The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is taken from the battle after being wounded in the thigh (key to the painting). Engraving, 1804, after R. Ker Porter.

Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby. Mezzotint by V. Green after Josiah Boydell after A. van Dyck.

World War One: back view of a wounded man lying down. Black chalk drawing, c. 1914.

Crimean War: appalling conditions as seen in the interior of the Russian Hospital in Sebastopol. Wood engraving after E.A. Goodall, 1855.

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War-Related Injuries

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Images referencing War-Related Injuries

Works from the collections

The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is taken from the battle after being wounded in the thigh (key to the painting). Engraving, 1804, after R. Ker Porter.

Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby. Mezzotint by V. Green after Josiah Boydell after A. van Dyck.

World War One: back view of a wounded man lying down. Black chalk drawing, c. 1914.

Crimean War: appalling conditions as seen in the interior of the Russian Hospital in Sebastopol. Wood engraving after E.A. Goodall, 1855.

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.

War-Related Injuries

Images from the collections

Images referencing War-Related Injuries

Works from the collections

The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is taken from the battle after being wounded in the thigh (key to the painting). Engraving, 1804, after R. Ker Porter.

Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby. Mezzotint by V. Green after Josiah Boydell after A. van Dyck.

World War One: back view of a wounded man lying down. Black chalk drawing, c. 1914.

Crimean War: appalling conditions as seen in the interior of the Russian Hospital in Sebastopol. Wood engraving after E.A. Goodall, 1855.

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.

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