Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.

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.

Boer War: soldiers in packed train carriages receive tea from women and children at Gillitts station. Halftone by C.H., 1900, after H. Paget after M. Ellis.

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

Boer War: wounded army officers on the deck of a hospital ship, and a piece from an armoured train. Halftone, c. 1900.

Transporting artillery by boat across the river Beas, Himachal Pradesh. Coloured lithograph after Alexander Jack, c. 1847.

1 print : halftone ; image 10.6 x 16.9 cm

A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions / by George A. Otis.

[vii]-viii pages, 2 leaves, 271 pages including plates ; 20 cm

Horses on board ship : a guide to their management / by M. Horace Hayes.

xxii, 206 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm

Illustrated lectures on ambulance work / by Lawton Roberts.

1 print : halftone ; image 11.3 x 15.2 cm

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

It's not possible to book tickets for events at present due to a problem with the ticketing system. We're working to fix it. You can still search and check information about events but please try again later if you want to book a ticket.

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

Take part in research

Archive collection level pages, plus the archive collection treatment on the work page and in search results.

The catalogue API's shortDescription is shown on the archive collection hero and in search results.

Archive collection

Clicking an image opens its details in a sidebar instead of a modal, with the selected image highlighted in the grid.

Updated image results grid and a re-sizable viewing pane.

Larger thumbnail, plus key information and onward journey in the sidebar.

Image sidebar preview

The three thematic browsing category pages (subjects, people & organisations, types & techniques) become accessible.

Subject sub-category pages become accessible, and the subjects category page gains a sub-category menu.

Transportation, Military

Images from the collections

Images referencing Transportation, Military

Works from the collections

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

A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions / by George A. Otis.

Horses on board ship : a guide to their management / by M. Horace Hayes.

Illustrated lectures on ambulance work / by Lawton Roberts.

Boer War: wounded army officers on the deck of a hospital ship, and a piece from an armoured train. Halftone, c. 1900.

Transportation, Military

Images from the collections

Images referencing Transportation, Military

Works from the collections

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

A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions / by George A. Otis.

Horses on board ship : a guide to their management / by M. Horace Hayes.

Illustrated lectures on ambulance work / by Lawton Roberts.

Boer War: wounded army officers on the deck of a hospital ship, and a piece from an armoured train. Halftone, c. 1900.

Related topics