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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.

Ambroise Paré, on the battlefield using a ligature for the artery of an amputated leg of a soldier. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after E. Morin.

Serbo-Bulgarian War: wounded Russian soldiers begging ambulance men to be taken away from the battlefield. Wood engraving.

The fatal wounding of Sir Ralph Abercrombie at Alexandria, 1801. Line engraving.

Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.

India: the ruins of Sammy House surrounded by scattered bones of sepoys killed in action. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.

Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

Wounded soldiers being taken to hospital by ambulance. Wood engraving by J. Gaildrau, 1854.

Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.

Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.

Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.

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

The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.

Boer War: the work of the Red Cross and medical staff with coats of arms. Reproduction of watercolours after A. Stewart and J.J. Waugh and wood engraving by A.H. Fisher, 1900.

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Battlefields

Images from the collections

Images about Battlefields

Works from the collections

Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.

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

The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.

Boer War: the work of the Red Cross and medical staff with coats of arms. Reproduction of watercolours after A. Stewart and J.J. Waugh and wood engraving by A.H. Fisher, 1900.

Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

Battlefields

Images from the collections

Images about Battlefields

Works from the collections

Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.

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

The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.

Boer War: the work of the Red Cross and medical staff with coats of arms. Reproduction of watercolours after A. Stewart and J.J. Waugh and wood engraving by A.H. Fisher, 1900.

Franco-Prussian War: peasants going to bury the dead from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving.

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