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: a full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after H. McCormick.

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

A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.

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

A convalescent soldier from Waterloo sitting with his wife and children. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1847, after W. Mulready.

Boer War: wounded soldiers being lifted off a hospital ship and carried away on stretchers. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. de Haenen after J. Bruton.

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

Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.

Boer War: wounded British soldiers lying in a waggon-house which is being used as a temporary hospital. Pen and ink drawing by H. Johnson.

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

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

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

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

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War victims

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

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

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.

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

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

War victims

Images from the collections

Images referencing War victims

Works from the collections

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

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

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.

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

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

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