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Military nursing

Images

  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.
  • New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.
  • A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

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

    Waugh, J. J. | Reference: 22131i
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    Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, senior lady superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / with an introduction by field-marshal the earl Roberts / compiled from her letters and papers by Alexander F. Bradshaw.

    | Date: 1905
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    Two soldiers carrying a wounded comrade off the battlefield. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after J.H. Marlet, 1817.

    Marlet, Jean-Henri, 1770-1847. | Date: [1817] | Reference: 20118i
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    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
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    Left, two members of the Garde nationale de Paris; right, a soldier receiving treatment from a surgeon and a military nurse, 1814. Coloured lithograph by G. David, ca. 1861, after A. de Marbot.

    Marbot, Alfred de. | Date: [1861?] | Reference: 20085i
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