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World War I: a neo-Gothic building used as a hospital, with an ambulance in the drive. Watercolour by Walter Spradbery.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three staff listen for a patient's heart beat and a doctor reads a man's pulse. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: an operating room with an anxious surgeon and fainting nurses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at a drunken dinner table and two bedridden patients with some meagre chips. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

World War I: Special Surgical Hospital, Shepherds Bush, London. Watercolour by Walter Spradbery, 1919.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at the dinner table as a nurse brings steaming food. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

World War I: Edinburgh Castle when in use as a hospital, seen from Prince's Street garden. Watercolour by Walter Spradbery, 1919.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a queue of hospital visitors with a nurse collecting money for the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses arguing and going to various places to cry. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

World War One: Islington Public Library used as a hospital ward. Photograph by Langfier Ltd., 1916.

Les sections sanitaires : American volunteers in the Great War / by Jack Edward McCallum.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses have lunch at a patisserie, the others have a drunken meal at the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Six weeks at the war / by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland.

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Les sections sanitaires : American volunteers in the Great War / by Jack Edward McCallum.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses arguing and going to various places to cry. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses have lunch at a patisserie, the others have a drunken meal at the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Six weeks at the war / by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at a drunken dinner table and two bedridden patients with some meagre chips. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.