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Women and the military

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Images about Women and the military

4 images from works
  • An army nurse. Watercolour drawing.
  • Two women visit two soldiers at their training camp on Coxhead Common, Kent. Engraving after T. Stothard, 1781.
  • An army hospital nurse in her outdoor uniform. Watercolour by C.C., 1899.
  • An army matron from the General Hospital, Dar-es-salaam, Tanganyika. Coloured lithograph.

Works from the collections

5 works

    • Books

    Gender and conflict since 1914 : historical and interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Ana Carden-Coyne.

    | Date: 2012
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two women visit two soldiers at their training camp on Coxhead Common, Kent. Engraving after T. Stothard, 1781.

    Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834. | Date: [1781] | Reference: 33622i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    An army nurse. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 17438i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    An army hospital nurse in her outdoor uniform. Watercolour by C.C., 1899.

    | Date: 1899 | Reference: 17432i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    An army matron from the General Hospital, Dar-es-salaam, Tanganyika. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 17433i

Related topics

Costume
Nurses
Armies

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