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Soldiers

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Images from the collections

Images about Soldiers

725 images from works
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.
  • Franco-Prussian War: women carrying wounded soldiers to hospital at Ivanitza. Coloured wood engraving by A.H.
  • An American serviceman clutching the letters "VD" like prison-bars from which he yearns to be released. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).
  • World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • "When night sets in the sun is down" : from the painting by R. Caton Woodville : post card / National Institute for the Blind.
  • Boer War: the reading-room at the field hospital, Wynberg, South Africa. Halftone, 1900, after R. Thomas.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing in the wounded to an open air Japanese field hospital. Wash drawing by G. Soper, 1904, after a photograph by J. Ruddiman Johnston.
  • George Washington on his deathbed, 1799. Coloured engraving by J. Rodgers after Chapin, 1799.
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Works from the collections

886 works

    • Ephemera

    5 ΛΕΠΤΑ 5 / Red Cross.

    | Date: [1918?]
    • Books
    • Online

    A manual of venereal diseases / by officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps ; introduction by Alfred Keogh ; [prepared by] C.H. Melville [and others].

    | Date: 1907
    • Ephemera

    ΕΛΛ. ΕΡ. ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ : 10 ΛΕΠΤΑ 10 / Red Cross.

    | Date: [1924?]
    • Ephemera

    Per le famiglie dei soldati : municipio di genova / [Red Cross]

    | Date: [between 1914 and 1918?]
    • Ephemera

    Croce bianca ufficio notizie-assistenza famiglie militari.

    | Date: 1915
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Related topics

Military uniforms
Wounds and Injuries
War
South African War, 1899-1902
Hospitals, Military
Ambulances
War victims
Hospitals
War - Relief of sick and wounded
Patients

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