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

A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).

Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.

Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Telephone Room, with officials in telephone booths, perhaps answering enquiries. Photograph, September 1918.

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

A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions / by George A. Otis.

Les institutions sanitaires pendant le conflit austro-prussien-italien : suivi d'un essai sur les voitures d'ambulance et d'un catalogue de la collection sanitaire américaine de l'auteur / par Thomas W. Evans.

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Hospital trains

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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.

A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).

A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions / by George A. Otis.

Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.

Les institutions sanitaires pendant le conflit austro-prussien-italien : suivi d'un essai sur les voitures d'ambulance et d'un catalogue de la collection sanitaire américaine de l'auteur / par Thomas W. Evans.

Hospital trains

Images from the collections

Images referencing Hospital trains

Works from the collections

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

A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).

A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions / by George A. Otis.

Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.

Les institutions sanitaires pendant le conflit austro-prussien-italien : suivi d'un essai sur les voitures d'ambulance et d'un catalogue de la collection sanitaire américaine de l'auteur / par Thomas W. Evans.

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