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British soldiers helping an ambulance through the mudVintage Photographs - Medical
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photography of medical and nursing personnel and facilities.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.

American ambulance workers off duty (CNP)

British soldiers helping an ambulance through the mud (MF)

French ambulance men eating, 1915 (MF) A thriving war industry: production of artificial arms and legs (CPE)
Soldiers who died from typhus (CPE) German first aid post in Poland (CPE)
Turkish military hospital in Jerusalem (CPE) Turkish red-crescent camp in the desert (CPE)
Conveying wounded in the Vosges, with surgeon in the rear seat (CPE) First aid to Russian wounded in the Carpathian drive (CPE)
A French church field hospital (CPE) The Red Cross on duty in the trenches (CNP)
Canadian Red Cross tent on the Western Front (CNP) Canadian photo of German POW's used as stretcher bearers (SR)
British using double litter to carry wounded in the Balkans (WW) The American Red Cross in the Balkans (WW)
Nurse Edith Cavell (WW) Italian First Aid station between the Brenta and Piave (WW)
American hospital train in France (WW) Two U.S. servicemen convalescing in a London hospital (WW)
U.S. hospital car (WW) U.S. Privates Smith and Hopkins and two decorated Red Cross nurses (WW)
U.S. officers convalescing at an estate in Lingfield Surrey (WW) Funeral of a British Red Cross nurse (WW)
Wounded U.S. soldiers recuperating in England (WW) British stretcher bearers (WW)
Convalescing U.S. soldiers at Red Cross Hospital No. 21 (WW) Wounded German soldiers receiving treatment from British doctors (WW)
British wounded at a Flanders clearing station (WW) Slightly wounded sailors being lifted to a first aid station (WW)
Wounded German soldier attended by a Canadian medical orderly (WW) British convalescents amuse themselves (NW)
Wounded soldiers in the U.S. hospital at Paignton, England (NW) Ambulance wagon passing through the great gully at Helles (NW)
A Red Cross depot in ruins (NW) A laden ambulance passing through Verdun en route to base hospital (NW)
Stretcher bearers bringing in the wounded (HW) Nurse Edith Cavell (HW)
The Red Cross bringing in wounded soldiers from the Front (HW) The Duchess of Westminster with the Red Cross at Le Touquet (HW)
A wounded Indian's return to the battlefront (HW) Red Cross bringing in the wounded to a Flanders base hospital (HW)
A Red Cross convoy escorted by Cossacks (HW) A Red Cross tour in Flanders (HW)
British Red Cross nurses arriving at Dieppe (HW) With the Royal Army Medical Corps: one of the Red Cross wagons (HW)
British Surgeon-General Sir A. T. Sloggett (HW) Imperial Nurses with the Russian Red Cross, with the Tsarina (right) (HW)
The ladder of good progress: handling casualties (HW) Red Cross in the Carpathians: Russian sleigh ambulances (HW)
Playing in casualties from the firing line to the doctor (HW) Russian Red Corss nurse visiting a graveside in Poland (HW)
Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps bringing morning milk supplies (HW) German Red Cross man wearing a gas mask with oxygen apparatus (GW)
First Aid in the French front lines (GW) British Red Cross nurse talking to director of Serbian Reserve Hospital (GW)
Edith Cavell (GW) The Dome of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton converted into a hospital (GW)
Edith Cavell (GW) French Red Cross doctor helping wounded from trench at Moncel (GWS)
Ambulances waiting to ferry the wounded behind the lines at Ypres (GWS) Two Belgian Red Cross doctors working lying down (GWS)
French ambulance work on the Western Front (GWS) Bullet-proof ambulance used for British rescue work (GWS)
Bullet-proof ambulance used for British rescue work (GWS) Red Cross workers in Alsace-Lorraine (GWS)
A Russian military train (GWS) British Surgeon-General Sir Arthur Sloggett (GWS)
Ward at the Japanese Hospital in Paris (GWS) Convalescent patients at the Japanese Hospital,  in Paris (GWS)
Presentation of medals to wounded at Hotel des Invalides, Paris (GWS) First-aid worker who suffered from poison gas exposure at Ypres (GWS)
A hospital in Moscow, with an operatic singer entertaining the wounded (GWS) British ambulances outside the Hotel des Invalides, Paris (GWS)
Interior of a German hospital with a conjurer amusing the wounded (GWS) Wounded soldiers fishing in the lake at Blenheim Palace (GWS)
Wounded soldiers convalescing at Blenheim Palace (GWS) Stretcher bearers carrying a wounded soldier in Belgrade (GWS)
Gifts from Queen Mary to the wounded at Claridge's Hospital, Paris (GWS) Sir John French's sister, Mrs Harley, as a hospital nurse in France (GWS)
View of an army operating theatre in France (GWS) Abbaye de Royaumont, Oise, used as an army hospital (GWS)
Female chauffeurs on Red Cross service in France (GWS) Queen Elana arriving at France with the Rome Red Cross (GWS)
Dinner being prepared in a hospital kitchen in France (GWS) Electrical apparatus in use at a German military hospital (GWS)
A wounded Gallipoli officer at the Anglo-American hospital base, Cairo (GWS) Scene at Lunar Park Hospital, Cairo (GWS)
Scene in a German hospital gymnasium by means of electricity (GWS) German officers under special medical electrical treatment (GWS)
R.A.M.C. stretcher party carrying wounded in Gallipoli (GWS) Princess Henry of Pless as a German nurse near Berlin (GWS)
Archduchess Zita of Austria chatting with Austrian wounded (GWS) German soldiers being innoculated against Cholera (GWS)
Squad of German Red Cross men leaving Berlin (GWS) Wounded French soldiers arriving at a field hospital (GWS)
Red Cross waggons on the edge of Salt Lake, Gallipoli (GWS) Wounded soldiers being conveyed to Dardanelles hospital ships (GWS)

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