Ambulance Collection (page 3)

St John Ambulance swagger stick and uniform details
A swagger stick and details of uniforms, with prices, for members of the St Johns Ambulance -- with military overtones

WW1 Red Cross and St. John's Ambulance Brigade Voluntary Aid Detachment volunteers with refreshments at a rai

Sir John Simon and Mayor of Pudsey talk to Commandant Coulon
Sir John Simon (John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon) (1873-1954) and the Mayor of Pudsey talk to Commandant Coulon (Assistant French Military attache)

Red Cross ambulance motor boat, WW1
The Silver Thimble VI, a Red Cross ambulance motor boat, built on the Clyde for service in Mesopotamia (Iraq) during the First World War. Date: circa 1915

Major Richardson leaves for Belgium with bloodhounds, WW1
Major Edwin Hauteville Richardson, Army officer and famous dog trainer, pictured at Charing Cross station with his Red Cross bloodhounds leaving for the seat of war in Belgium

Sketch cover, Lady Michelham as a nurse, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring Lady Michelham, formerly Miss Aimee Geraldine Bradshaw, at the time she was working on an ambulance train given by her husband

Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker - Madonnas of Pervyse
Mairi Lambert Gooden-Chisholm of Chisholm, better known as Mairi Chisholm (1895-1981), Scottish nurse and ambulance driver during World War I, pictured right with, on the left

WW1 - A ward car of an Ambulance Train built by the Caledonian Railway Company, on the order of the War Office, for conveyance of Wounded British soldiers in France from the Front to the Channel

Vickers Vernon ambulance J7143 of 45 Squadron over Iraq
Vickers Vernon ambulance, J7143, of 45 Squadron over Hinaidi, Iraq

East Leeds Military Hospital / Leeds Workhouse, West Yorkshi
The Leeds Union workhouse in its temporary First World War role as East Leeds Military Hospital. Uniformed soldiers stand at the entrance gatehouse which is adorned with a red cross

GLC-LFB Fifty pump fire, Tooley Street, Southwark
The biggest blaze of the decade was fought at Wilsons Wharf, near Tooley Street, Southwark, in the summer of 1971. It was the same location that cost the life of Londons Fire Chief

Hospital ships Atlas, Endymion, Castalia, at Long Reach
View of the Metropolitan Asylums Boards hospital ships Atlas (left), Endymion (centre) and Castalia (right) on the River Thames at Long Reach near Dartford, Kent

Animal ambulance workers WWII
Women hurrying to an animal ambulance for stray and unwanted animals during World War II

Horse Ambulance at Beverloo Training Camp, Belgium
Belgium - Beverloo. An infantry training camp during World War One. First used by the Belgians, then taken on by the Germans. Used as an SS training camp by the Germans in WW2. A Horse-drawn ambulance

Arciconfraternita della Misericordia di Firenze
La Venerabile Arciconfraternita della Misericordia di Firenze - a charitable Fraternity from Florence, Italy, serving to transport the sick

Female Harrods Employees in War-time Uniform, 1940
Photograph showing nine female employees of Harrods in their war-time uniforms, each woman working for a different service. From left to right: Womans Land Army, Womens Voluntary Services, St

Helping an ambulance through the mud, WW1. 1914-1918

Red Cross travelling repair shop 1916
Interior view of a travelling repair van, with a soldier working on repairing vehicles in the war zone. Date: 1916

WW1 - German Red Cross postcard. Date: circa 1916

Mending Red Cross ambulances 1916
Soldiers working under a canopy in the war zone, repairing most needed Red Cross ambulances. Date: 1916

Lady Louis Mountbatten at her sisters wedding
Lady Louis Mountbatten dressed in her St John Ambulance Brigade uniform at the Caxton Hall register office, attending the wedding of her sister, Mrs Ashley, to Laurie Gardner. 1940

Map of parts of South Africa, 1900 (c). Published by G W Bacon, 1900. Associated with Lt Col H H C Dent, 1/3 North Midland Field Ambulance, Boer War (1899-1902)

Dunkirk, France - bomb damage, WW1
Dunkirk, France - bomb damage during the First World War, showing the Grand Hotel Pyl (left) and the Cafe Victor (right). Date: 1914-1918

WW1 Ambulance Train
Inside the Treatment Room, pharmacy car on a WW1 Continental Ambulance Train Date: circa 1915

WW1 Ambulance Train Ward Car
Two nurses on the Continental Ambulance Train display equipment in the ward car, beds arranged for sitting up cases. Date: circa 1915

HMS Queen Empress in the White Sea, WW1
HMS Queen Empress, used as ambulance transport in the White Sea towards the end of WW1. Date: circa 1918-1919

D-Day British Invasion Forces, WW2
D-Day British Invasion Forces approaching Normandy, France, June 1944. 1944

Mont-St-Jean Farmhouse - Waterloo Belgium
Mont-St Jean Farmhouse - Waterloo was the ambulance station for allied troops during the battle of Waterloo. The site of Mont-St-Jean is mentioned in Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. circa 1910s

Ambulance team near Salaita, German East Africa, WW1
Some of the combined ambulance team near Salaita, German East Africa, during WW1. The Battle of Salaita Hill took place on 12 February 1916, with a German victory. 1916

Ambulance team following troops, East Africa, WW1
Ambulance team following troops in East Africa during WW1 -- they were never far from the fighting men. 1916

Ambulance dog at Maktau Camp, Kenya, WW1
Rare image of an ambulance dog at Maktau Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1, equipped with a First Aid belt -- pets were not allowed in camp. 1916

Major Harris with Field Ambulance Unit, WW1
Major Harris (seated), with ICFA (Field Ambulance Unit), East Africa, during WW1. 1917

Ambulance team muster, Bura Camp, Kenya, WW1
Ambulance team muster at Bura Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1. 1916

Ambulance team on parade, Bura Camp, Kenya, WW1
Ambulance team on parade at Bura Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1. 1916

Ambulance drill, Tembo Camp, Kenya, WW1
Ambulance drill with wheeled stretchers at Tembo Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1. 1915

WW1 poster, Red Cross ambulance
Poster, US Red Cross ambulance on the Western Front. circa 1918

Advert for Buick, Red Cross ambulances 1916
Buick were used for emergencies in World War One at the front, with British Red Cross and St Johns on the side of the vehicle Date: 1916

The Geneva Cross River Ambulance interior
The Geneva Cross river ambulance used to transport smallpox patients down the Thames from London to riverside hospital at Long Reach near Dartford Date: circa 1900

Smallpox patient arriving at Long Reach, near Dartford
A smallpox patient arriving at Long Reach, near Dartford. Patients were transported by river ambulance from London then transferred to the hospital buildings via a tram. Date: circa 1900

South Wharf River Ambulance Station, Rotherhithe
The South Wharf River Ambulance Station, Rotherhithe, from where smallpox patients travelled by river to a hospital at Long Reach near Dartford. Date: circa 1900

Disabled Children in London Going to School by Ambulance
An ambulance provided by the London School Board takes what were then referred to as crippled children to school. Date: early 1900s

Lady Dorothy Feilding
Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore (aka " Dot" Feilding), better known as Dorothie Feilding, MM, CdeG, OLII, (6 October 1889 24 October 1935), daughter of Lord and Lady Denbigh

Advert for Carters motor-ambulances 1912
J. & A Carter patent motor-ambulances, showing the interior. 1913

Quex Ambulance Q. 2 used as a selling booth
Quex Ambulance Q.2 being used as a selling booth during War Weapons Week in Birchington. Major Powell-Cotton (in Homberg hat) is speaking to one of the women at the table

Loading an ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station
Loading a stretcher into an ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station in March 1916. Several men, including service personnel and a civilian are assisting lifting a stretcher holding a patient into the top

Kent VAD ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station
A Kent VAD ambulance is parked by some buildings at Ramsgate Town Station in March 1916. Two sailors are carrying a stretcher. A man and a VAD nurse are leaning over the stretcher

Patients waiting for VAD transport
Three stretchers with patients are on the ground at the back of some vehicles. The patients have probably just arrived by ambulance train at Ramsgate Town Station

Ambulances arriving at Quex Park VAD Hospital
Major Powell-Cotton is supervising the removal of a stretcher from an ambulance at the front of Quex House. The stretcher is being carried by two VAD Hospital patients wearing the patients uniform of

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