Global war originating in Europe, 1914–1918

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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: orderlies of the Royal Army Medical Corps attending to the wounded. Watercolour by D. MacPherson, 1917.

Bone & fat bucket : save them for munitions / Domestic Savings Committee.

Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with a scarred forehead, before plastic surgery at the Val-de-Grace hospital, Paris. Photograph, 1915.

The Times history of the war.

Rationing order, 1918 : instructions for the use of the New Ration Card. (N.86) / Ministry of Food.

French or Belgian prisoners of war, some in drag, posing on stage during a crowded scene of "La dame aux camélias"; at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 191-.

National ration book (B) / Ministry of Food.

Traumatic epilepsy after gunshot wounds of the head / by P.B. Ascroft.

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

Defensive measures against gas attacks / C.F.N. MacReady.

Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

Women of the war / by Barbara McLaren ; with an introduction by the Right Hon. H.H.Asquith, M.P.

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World War I

Images from the collections

Images referencing World War I

Works from the collections

Traumatic epilepsy after gunshot wounds of the head / by P.B. Ascroft.

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

Defensive measures against gas attacks / C.F.N. MacReady.

Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

Women of the war / by Barbara McLaren ; with an introduction by the Right Hon. H.H.Asquith, M.P.

World War I

Images from the collections

Images referencing World War I

Works from the collections

Traumatic epilepsy after gunshot wounds of the head / by P.B. Ascroft.

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

Defensive measures against gas attacks / C.F.N. MacReady.

Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

Women of the war / by Barbara McLaren ; with an introduction by the Right Hon. H.H.Asquith, M.P.

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