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War victims

Images

  • 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.
  • A ward on the top deck of a hospital ship with patients standing or sitting by their beds. 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.
  • Boer War: patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic while being watched by three nurses. Halftone, c.1900, after F. de Haenen.
  • Boer War: a full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after H. McCormick.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    World War One: back view of a man seated on a cushion on the ground. Black chalk drawing, c. 1914.

    | Date: 1914 | Reference: 24580i
    • Pictures

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

    | Date: 1914 | Reference: 24587i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    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.

    MacPherson, Douglas, 1871-1951. | Date: 1904 | Reference: 23870i
    • Pictures

    World War One: a stretcher bearer walking towards a faint and blurred mass of wounded men receiving attention. Chalk sketch, c. 1914.

    Spare, Austin Osman, 1886-1956. | Date: 1914 | Reference: 24601i
    • Books

    Green parrots : a war surgeon's diary / Gino Strada ; foreword by Howard Zinn.

    Strada, Gino. | Date: 2004
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