Casualties Collection (page 2)

Blitz in London -- searching debris for casualties, WW2
Blitz in London -- rescue personnel searching for casualties but being severely hampered by smoke from the smouldering debris. Date: 1940s

Blitz in London -- extricating a casualty, WW2
Blitz in London -- rescue personnel extricating a casualty from debris following an air raid. Date: 1940s

Tatler cover - German bombardment of Scarborough
Front cover of The Tatler, showing a ruined house in Wykeham Street, Scarborough, which killed Mrs Barrett and two chilldren when German ships bombarded the East Coast of England in 1914. Date: 1914

Body armour and visors by G. H. Davis
Body armour and visors: medieval style protection for the British army during the Second World War. This protection stops small

Cartoon, British father wheeling pram, WW1
Cartoon of a British father wheeling a pram past a Post Office during the First World War. He is looking at the War News of battle casualties, and comments: What a life

German shell damaged Scarborough 1914
On 16th December 1914, Scarborough was attacked by the Imperial German Navy, shop in South Street, Scarborough where a man was killed in the street. Date: 1929

A German 15cm Siege gun
A photograph showing a German gun captured by French soldiers during the Battle of the Somme. Intended to be a decisive breakthrough

Siege of Gibraltar - 4
British boats rescue enemy casualties when the attacking French and Spanish fleet is destroyed by the garrison. Date: 13 September 1782

Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, London
The Royal Artillery Memorial - a stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London, dedicated to casualties in the Royal Regiment of Artillery during WWI - designed by Charles Jagger and Lionel Pearson

Blitz in London -- Invicta Road, Westcombe Park, WW2
Blitz in London -- firefighters join Heavy Rescue teams (in overalls) and ARP squads who are searching for casualties and bodies after a heavy explosive bomb devastated buildings in Invicta Road

Blitz in London -- rescue workers searching debris, WW2
Blitz in London -- rescue workers (not firefighters) search through the debris of a bombed building, seeking survivors or extricating the dead, in the Ladywell area of Lewisham, SE London

Russian battleship casualties

Up to sixteen stone: hunting casualties. Date between 1835 and 1856

Allied Intervention in Vladivostock - Russian Civil War
In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, the port of Vladivostok in far eastern Russia was of great military importance for the Far Eastern Republic, the Provisional Priamurye Government

Grave Unknown Soldier
The grave of the Unknown Soldier, one of the many casualties of World War One. Date: 1924

Nightingale / Simpson / Scut
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Hospital ward at Scutari, on a day when casualties were unusually light 1820 - 1910

Brunei released from rebel hands
Casualties of the operation: Royal Marines of 42 Commando and two naval ratings from the minesweeper Chawton arriving back at Labuan

Workhouse Infirmary, Kingston, Surrey
The infirmary at the Kingston Union workhouse, erected In 1897-9. During the First World War it was used for military casualties. In 1920, it was renamed Kingston and District Hospital

Lieutenant General Alderson / Stamp
Lieutenant General SIR EDWIN ALFRED HERVEY ALDERSON (1859 - 1927) Senior British Army officer serving in several campaigns

Shipping Casualties HMSO report, Inquiry booklet
Two items relating to the sinking of the Titanic. 1. Front cover of the HMSO report of an official investigation, entitled Shipping Casualties (Loss of the Steamship Titanic)

Shipping Casualties HMSO report
Front cover of the HMSO report of an official investigation, entitled Shipping Casualties (Loss of the Steamship Titanic)

Recruitment Poster Ww1
REMEMBER BELGIUM A First World War recruitment poster, highlighting the news of atrocities commited by the German troops after the invasion of Belgium

Lloyds Underwriters viewing the Casualties Board, 1890
Illustration showing a group of Lloyds underwriters viewing the Casualties Board, for information about damaged and sunk ships, Lodnon, 1890

The Casualties Board at Lloyds of London, 1886
Illustration showing a group of insurance underwriters examining the Casualties Board at Lloyds of London, 1886. Details of wrecked and damaged ships were placed on this board

Wounded in the Fighting
Casualties of the Paris street fighting are transported to the Hospice Saint Louis

Fighting at Rachow
Cossack cavalry attack the insurgents who have invested the town of Rachow : they will be beaten back by a rebel counter-attack with many casualties

General Monro
General Charles Carmichael Monro, sent as replacement to Sir Ian Hamilton in the Dardanelles. After a disastrous campaign, Hamilton was recalled to England

Graves at Balaklava
Graves at the head of the harbour at Balaklava

Embarking Sick, Balaklava
Embarking the sick at Balaklava

The Civil War in America. Fredericksburg
Scene of the battle between the Federals and the Confederates. Fredericksburg devastated after the battle which took place on December 13th 1862

Nurses waiting to travel to the coast to prepare for the rec
London Hospital nurses at Charing Cross station ready to travel to the aid of casualties of the First World War

War casualties awaiting treatment at a dressing station
The battle of Menin Road. A photograph of British and German soldiers being treated at a dressing station near Zonnebek

The Red Cross at work
Treating the casualties of the war in the East, fought between the Ottoman Turks and Serbia and Montenegro

British Red Cross hospital
A sketch of a blessing taking place in a British Red Cross hospital. The floating hospital, positioned on the Danube at Giurgevo was essential in treating the casualties in the Russo-Turkish war

CASUALTIES
Casualties at the barricades, during the last days of the fighting : bodies are taken away by locals

Electro-magnetic surgery
A tool to aid surgeons in the operating theatre. A electro-magnetic machine to detect and remove metal particles from wounds

Coup: Casualties
As troops supporting Napoleon clear the streets of Paris, those unfortunate enough to be in the line of fire are carried to the hospitals

Rus-Jap War / Coffins
Coffins of Russian casualties are attended to by a Russian Orthodox Priest

Wounded Officer
A wounded officer is carried off the battlefield by his men. The uniforms are German or Austrian, and this is probably an incident of the Seven Years War

Civilian Casualties
Civilian casualties are treated as best they can be, in a makeshift hospital

Battle of Rocroi 1643
BATTLE OF ROCROI Conde defeats the Spanish with heavy casualties, an event which marks the decline of Spanish military power

Jonathan & Philistines
Sauls son Jonathan, together with his armour-bearer, sneak into the Philistine camp and inflict heavy casualties, just the two of them

Events / USA / Civil War
A southern belle watches as casualties of the war are carried into a southern maision

Space Hospital Rockets
Hospital Spaceship, Equipped to Carry Space Casualties and Give them In-Flight Treatment

Romans against Germans
Roman soldiers attack a German town - casualties on both sides

Wounded Soldiers / Callot
The human cost of war. The crippled and wounded - the legless and armless are given alms. Soup is dished out from a cauldron in the street

Field Hospital
Lee loses 9000 men, Porter 4000 in the inconclusive battle of Gaines Mill, Virginia : casualties are treated in a field hospital at Savages Station

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