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  • Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.
  • A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.
  • 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.
  • A physician diagnoses war veterans. Wood engraving, c. 1870.
  • 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.
  • Three uniformed German army officers in the Kingdom of Württemberg, two from the disabled soldiers corps. Coloured lithograph by H.M.D. Monten, ca. 1838.
  • Invalided soldiers assembled in the garden of Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, c. 1855.
  • An armless veteran of the Hôtel des Invalides is hired as a guide for visitors, in order that he take no money from them. Coloured lithograph by Cham.
  • 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.
  • Greenwich Pensioners variously sitting or standing in the colonnade of the "Helpless ward" at Greenwich Hospital. Lithograph by S. Rayner.
  • Boer War: a one armed man helps a one legged man. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.
  • Boer War: a full ward in the Wynberg military hospital, South Africa, with nurses attending the wounded. Halftone, 1900, after P.F.S. Spence after H. Egersdorfer.
  • Boer War: a hospital ward with soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • Queen Victoria with her entourage visiting invalided soldiers at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • A band of seven blinded soldiers playing the banjo. Photograph, ca. 1919.
  • Greenwich Pensioners variously sitting or standing in the colonnade of the "Helpless ward" at Greenwich Hospital. Lithograph by S. Rayner.
  • Soldat im irrenhaus.
  • Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.
  • Boer War: a nurse helping invalids to an ambulance for transfer to Maritzburg from Ladysmith. Process print after a drawing by F. Dadd after W.T. Maud.
  • Boer War: Queen Victoria presenting flowers to a wounded soldier during a visit to the Herbert hospital, Woolwich. Halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • A nurse with convalescent soldiers on the deck of a hospital ship. Pen and ink drawing by E. S. H.
  • Boer War: a group of soldiers wounded during the siege of Kimberley, South Africa. Process print after Bennett, 1899.
  • Boer War: a wounded soldier being visited in hospital by his wife and little daughter. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph by E. H. Mills.
  • Boer War: a group of wounded war veterans at the docks in England. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph.
  • Queen Victoria with her entourage visiting invalided soldiers at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • Boer War: a soldier reads out good news from the front as others cheer and a barber stops work. Halftone, 1900, after F. Dadd after H. Egersdorfer.
  • A one-legged beggar and former soldier approaches a wealthy clergyman for alms. Etching with engraving by John Collier, 1770.
  • Her Majesty Queen Victoria and entourage visiting soldiers wounded during the Boer War, in a ward at Netley Hospital. Pen and ink drawing by J. Duncan, c. 1900, after F. C. Dickinson.