Vintage Photographs - Medical
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.
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 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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