Stretcher Bearer Collection

Guys Hospital, Southwark, London, c1800. Artist: John Pass
Guys Hospital, Southwark, London, c1800. View of the north front of the hospital showing a man being stretchered through the front gates

Casualties from the front pass destroyed tanks, Villers-Bretonneux, France, World War I, 1918. Villers-Bretonneux was the scene of the first tank battle in history, on 24th April 1918

American soldiers & wounded, 27 Apr 1918. Creator: Bain News Service. American soldiers & wounded, 27 Apr 1918
American soldiers & wounded, 27 Apr 1918. American soldiers carrying wounded troops onto hospital train at Horreville, France, April 27, 1918.

German prisoners with machine guns & wounded, 21 Aug 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
German prisoners with machine guns & wounded, 21 Aug 1918. German prisoners bringing in wounded soldiers and captured machine guns during the third Battle of the Albert, near Courcelles, France

Chaplain & stretcher bearers, France, 27 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Chaplain & stretcher bearers, France, 27 Aug 1917. Ground recovered near the River Meuse, near Beaumont, on August 27, 1917

German hospital train, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
German hospital train, between 1914 and c1915. A German hospital train, probably during World War I.

Wounded Moroccan on stretcher, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Wounded Moroccan on stretcher, between c1914 and c1915. A wounded soldier from Morocco on a stretcher during World War I.

The Battle Seen by a Combatant; The advance of Alpine chasseurs to the right... 1917. Creator: F Elim
The Battle Seen by a Combatant; The advance of Alpine chasseurs to the right of Fort de la Malmaison, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris

How to make a surprise attack; Departure: in the foreground, seen from behind... 1917. Creator: Unknown
How to make a surprise attack; Departure: in the foreground, seen from behind, a stretcher-bearer accompanies troops, as a volunteer, to help any wounded, without belonging to the fighting group

Bringing Home the Body of King Karl XII of Sweden, 1884 / 1878. Creator: Gustaf Cederström
Bringing Home the Body of King Karl XII of Sweden, 1884 / 1878

'L'autriche succombe; Un gue de la Piave; blesse transporte par des prisonniers autrichiens, 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris

Sur le front d'Orient; Un blesse bulgare abandonne, qui s'est degage d'entre les morts gisant sur l Creator
Sur le front d'Orient; Un blesse bulgare abandonne, qui s'est degage d'entre les morts gisant sur le terrain, est transporte par les brancardiers serbes aux ambulances de nos allies

Sur les champs de bataille Macedoniens de Gornitchevo et du Kaimaktchalan; La releve... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Sur les champs de bataille Macedoniens de Gornitchevo et du Kaimaktchalan; La releve des blesses au col de Gornitchevo, apres les combats des 12-14 septembre. 1916

Faut pas vous désoler comme ca... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Faut pas vous desoler comme ca... 19th century. Les Raisins Malades - Don't be sorry like that

Une semaine de combats sur la rive gauche de la Meuse; 11 mars (7 heures)... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Une semaine de combats sur la rive gauche de la Meuse; 11 mars (7 heures). --Brancardiers ramenant nos blesses : a terre, deux Allemands tues le 9 mars, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Le Triomphateur (28 septembre 1915), 1915. Creator: Francois Flameng
Le Triomphateur (28 septembre 1915), 1915. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916"

Sandbag Battery defended by the Guards - sketched on the morning of the Battle of Inkerman, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Sandbag Battery defended by the Guards - sketched on the morning of the Battle of Inkerman, 1854. Crimean War:..two 18-pounders which had been mounted on Sandbag battery were taken away

Army, U.S, Hospital Car - Interior, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Army, U.S, Hospital Car - Interior, 1917
Army, U.S, Hospital Car - Interior, 1917. Soldier is stretchered on board

La Retraite Serbie; Evacuation des blesses sur la rive droite de la Morava, par un pont de bois presque completement de'truit, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Sortie of the Russians from Sebastopol, October 26, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Sortie of the Russians from Sebastopol, October 26, 1854. Crimean War. The Russian prisoners relate that General Luders, thinking he had gained a victory...sent a grandiloquent account of the affair

Boy Scouts Training Demonstration, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Boy Scouts Training Demonstration, 1912
Boy Scouts Training Demonstration, 1912. [Improvised stretcher made from two poles and clothing]

Siege of Sebastopol - Mr. Guthrie's Ambulance Waggons, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Siege of Sebastopol - Mr. Guthrie's Ambulance Waggons, 1854. The latest accounts from the Crimea inform us that the Ambulances...have at length reached the spot where they are wanted...although a

Conveying Wounded to Wynberg Hospital Camp, 1900. Creator: Alfs Hosking
Conveying Wounded to Wynberg Hospital Camp, 1900. A Military Hospital was set up at Wynberg, a suburb of Cape Town suring the Second Boer War. From " South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol

Arrival at Cape Town of Wounded from Natal, 1900. Creator: Hosking
Arrival at Cape Town of Wounded from Natal, 1900. Transports brought sick and wounded soldiers to hospitals in Cape Town because of inadequate hospital facilities in Natal

Red Cross Work in the Flanders Mud, First World War, 1 August 1917, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Red Cross Work in the Flanders Mud, First World War, 1 August 1917, (c1920). R.A.M.C. stretcher-bearers bringing in wounded during the advance on Passchendaele

On the Homeward Journey: Conveying Wounded from Collecting Posts to Dressing Stations, 1917. From " The War Illustrated Album De Luxe - Volume VII

Wounded soldier being treated in the trenches, Battle of the Somme, First World War, 1916, (1935)
Wounded British soldier being treated in the trenches during the Battle of the Somme, First World War, 1916, (1935). One of the attacking soldiers being given " First Aid"

Transporting the injured, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

An advanced dressing station, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916. A Red Cross flag is affixed to a tree

Patients being taken on board a hospital barge, Somme campaign, France, World War I, 1916

Carrying a wounded soldier to a first aid post, Passchendaele, Belgium, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail. (Colorised black and white print)

Carrying wounded through the trenches, 1915. The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Canakkale was a campaign of World War I that took

Explosion at Cairo Railway Station: Bursting of Shells and Ammunition, c1882-85
Explosion at Cairo Railway Station: Bursting of Shells and Ammunition, c1880. Episode of the Anglo-Egyptian War (1882). From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. IV, by James Grant

South Wales had its turn early in the New Year. A stretcher party carries a casualty to safety, 1941 (1942). The toll on the night of 2 January 1941 saw 165 people killed and 427 more injured

David Livingstone being carried on a makeshift stretcher through the jungle, Africa, 19th century. Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873)

Wounded fusilier after the Boers brave stand near Orange River, South Africa, Boer War, 1900. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Stretcher bearers caring for wounded at an improvised first aid post, World War I, c1914-c1918. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Stretcher bearers removing a wounded officer, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Stretcher bearers removing a wounded officer, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Belgian stretcher bearers carrying wounded in a trench, Dixmude, Belgium, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

German prisoners carrying British wounded, World War I, 1916. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
German prisoners carrying British wounded, World War I, 1916. During the assault on Trones Wood, part of the Battle of the Somme. Stereoscopic card detail

French field hospital near Moreuil, Picardy, France, 1918

Transportation of the injured, Allied operations in the Dardanelles, Turkey, 1915-1916. Launched in March 1915, the Allied landings on the Gallipoli peninsula were intended to establish a supply

The fete for the First-Aid workers, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 21st July 1901

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, 1906. Mohondas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma - Great Soul) (1869-1948) left India in 1893

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