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Shepherd with sheep, horse and dogA delightful scene on a country track in Cumbria showing a lakeland shepherd carrying home a lame member of his flock, accompanied by his trusty hound and a fine white horse
No. 1 War Hospital, Reading, BerkshireRear view of the entrance to the No. 1 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire - the First World War deployment of Reading Union Workhouse. Several uniformed soldiers can be seen, one on crutches
Wounded Indian Troops - Royal Pavilion, BrightonIndian soldiers wounded in action during the First World War, convalesce in the Royal Pavilion at Brighton
A red cross working dog during WWIA wounded German soldier is found by a Red Cross dog. Date: 1915
German poster campaign for injured soldiersGerman poster to raise funds for war wounded soldiers, showing a soldier with a crutch in his left hand and tools in his right
Suffragette Emily Davison Epsom Derby Jockey. The Kings jockey Herbert Jones removed from Epsom Racecourse, following the incident on Derby day, June 4th, 1913
Injured soldiers, WW1, 3rd Southern General Hospital, OxfordInjured soldiers - WW1 - No. 1003 Cowley Section - 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford. The importance of light and fresh air in aiding recovery was very prevalent in medical thinking at this time
WWI - Wounded soldier in the arms of his nurseWWI - Wounded soldier (who has lost his arm) in the arms of his nurse - Comrades in Arms. Date: circa 1917
LCC-LFB Recruit firemen training at Brigade HQ, SE1During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth. Here the recruit squad are rescuing by carrying down on the 50 foot wheeled escape ladder pitched to the third
Blitz in London -- AFS personnel receiving treatment, WW2With the Blitz still at its height, Londons firefighters and fire support crews are removed to local hospitals for emergency treatment after receiving injuries fighting the fires started by enemy
A Good Samaritan - Indian Soldier - WWIA Good Samaritan - Colonial Indian Soldier from Delhi aids a wounded French trooper - WWI. He leads him to the safety of the Allied lines on the back of a Donkey Date: circa 1917
Injured Ww1 SoldierA British soldier and his wife (or girlfriend) pose for the photographer, with the young mans lost leg stark evidence of the horrors of the conflict and the injuries suffered
Bas relief from the Anzac Memorial - Sydney, AustraliaBronze Bas relief from the Anzac War Memorial by Rayner Hoff - Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia - showing the landing of troops at Gallipoli, Dardanelles Front, WW1. Date: circa 1934
Heroic deeds of the War - Corporal Josephine M C RobinsHeroic deeds of WW2 - Corporal Josephine M C Robins, a member of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF). Awarded the Military Medal (MM)
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1823-1910). British nurse and philanthropist. He organized military hospitals for the injured during the Crimean War (1854-55) and founded in London a nursery school
Italian unification. Battle of Bezzeca (July 21, 1866). Garibaldi, injured, incites to his soldiers. Litography. ITALY. Brescia. Risorgimento Museum
Our Soldiers: how they are Made and MendedA series of intricate images by silhouette artist, H. L. Oakley showing scenes on the Western Front in a mounted regiment followed by the transportation of an injured officer to hospital
Will They Never Come? World War One posterWorld War One recruitment poster using a photograph from the Weekly Dispatch showing a bloodied and bandaged British soldier who having just dispatched the enemy with his rifle simultaneously
Hohenzollern Redoubt 1915Wounded soldiers returning to a Dressing Station through Vermelles during the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt on the Western Front in France during World War I on 13th October 1915
14th Hussars - Colonel Brown Victoria Cross Re-enactmentVictoria Cross Re-enactment of the bravery of Colonel Edward Douglas Brown (Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson VC) (18611940) of the 14th Hussars - who
Metropolitan Police officers, Wapping High Street, LondonTwo Metropolitan Police officers wheeling a Bischoffsheim hand ambulance along Wapping High Street, East London, much to the interest of children, as there is a man lying inside
Blind Italian soldier - WWIItalian soldiers blinded during World War One - a poem explaining their fate. Date: circa 1918
Injured CatA veterinary surgeon holding a cat at the Cats Hospital, Hampstead, London
WW1 - Home Front - Belgravia War Hospital Supply Depot, London - New Rubber Crutch invented by Mr G. Healing. Date: circa 1917
The Gordon Riots, street scene Date: 1780
Lew Lakes Colossal Comedy Company of ComediansPromotional postcard for Lew Lakes Colossal Comedy Company of Comedians. Popular music hall sketch company set up by Lew Lake (1874-1939)
United States Air Force - Kaman HH-43F Huskie 59-1544 (msn 25), of Detachment 14, 42nd Aerospace Rescue Squadron, at Nellis Air Force Base
Exterior of the Poplar Hospital in east India Road, London. Opened under the patronage of Samuel Gurney, MP to treat people who had suffered injuries in the docks. Date: 1858
Dogs tail painfully run over by a carSorry, I have a tail - Oh Mother! What a catastrophy! 1936
WW1 - A group of young girls collecting for wounded soldiersWW1 - A group of young girls dressed as nurses collecting for wounded soldiers in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France circa 1915
Queen Victoria visiting wounded Crimean soldiers 1856When her soldiers came back Queen Victoria distributed with her own hands, after military achievement, medals were given out for distinguished valour. Date: 1856
Beware of the Bull - Man comes a cropper, even though he professes to be a Vegetarian! Date: 1906
A couple don t let injury spoil their seaside holidayCandid seaside photography - a couple don t let injury (to the wife requiring her to be pushed in a wheelchair) spoil their seaside holiday as they stroll (or are pushed) along the promenade
Churchill recovering from injuries following a car accidentWinston Churchill (1874-1965) leaves hospital after being struck by a car late one evening while crossing New Yorks Fifth Avenue in December, 1931, barely escaping with his life. Date: 1931
St Dunstans Hospital for Blind Soldiers - Door Mat MakingSt Dunstans Hospital (Hostel) for Blind Soldiers (and Sailors) - Door Mat Making. Date: circa 1918
Wounded French Soldiers - Saintes, FranceWW1 - Wounded French Soldiers at Saintes - a commune and historic town in southwestern France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Date: 1914
WW1 era Comic Postcard - Where I beat the Boche - a young bandaged chap back from the front (or pretending to be thus...) shows his girl (on a hanging map of Northern France)
Preparatory sketch by Tom Browne - Pain - screaming boyPreparatory pencil sketch by the extremely popular English strip cartoonist, painter and illustrator of the late Victorian and Edwardian period
An exhausted cab horse - The Strand, LondonLondon Life - An exhausted cab horse tended to on the street - The Strand, London Date: circa 1901
German holding up the other Central PowersRussian caricature from WWI era showing Germany struggling to support the failing efforts of their allies, the other Central Powers, The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (?). Date: circa 1917
Dummy injured soldier used during training, WW1A dummy injured soldier used during training at Camouflage School, Kensington Gardens, during the First World War. The Germans would dress up a dummy in captured khaki to look like a British soldier
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
The Kitchener Hospital, Brighton, Sussex - WWI eraThe Kitchener Hospital, Brighton, Sussex - WWI. Initially opened as Brighton Union workhouse on Race Hill, at Elm Grove in Brighton, Sussex, which opened in 1867
Skull showing bullet hole in right templeSkull of adult male suicide case. Taken during the archaelogical excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986
GLC-LFB Fifty pump fire, Tooley Street, SouthwarkThe 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
London AFS fireman at a hospital during the Blitz, WW2London AFS fireman at a hospital for medical attention during the Blitz
London AFS firewoman at a hospital during the Blitz, WW2London AFS firewoman at a hospital for medical attention during the Blitz
1903 FA Cup Final: Derby County beats Bury 6-0The Football Association Cup Final at the Crystal Palace, where Bury beat Derby County by six goals to nil in the presence of over 63, 000 spectators
Wounded soldiers at Sanches, Flanders, Western Front. WW1. Date: 1914-1918
German Red Cross with wounded French Soldiers - WWIWounded French POWs from German prison camps received at a railwaty station by the German Red Cross. Date: circa 1916
Injured American soldier at Boureville, France, WW1An injured American soldier is carried on a stretcher during action at Boureville, Forest of Argonne, north eastern France during the First World War. Date: 26 September 1918
Two Horses and a group of dogsPortrait of Two Horses peering over the edge of their stall to check on a group of three dogs, including a terrier with a bandaged head. Date: circa 1910s
Portuguese soldiers captured on the Western Front, WW1Portuguese soldiers who have been captured on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916-1918
The Medicine Ball by David GhilchikA fashionable 1930s couple dressed in swimsuits partake in a wholesome exercise game with a medicine ball but with unfortunate consequences. Date: 1932
A variety of pistols, including Colts Deringer pistolMasterful Reinecke. Silhouette of a wailing fox (or a wolf), in pain from a sore (and bandaged) foot, howling his angst to a goose, which he has swatted out of a tree and an observant perched owl
The Wailing BearSilhouette of a wailing bear, in pain from a sore (and bandaged) foot, howling his angst to the moon (and a perched owl). Date: circa 1910s
Injured colonial French Soldier (WW1) cared for by nurseWW1 - An injured colonial French Soldier (Senegalese?) cared for by a pretty nurse. Date: circa 1917
A recuperating wounded WW1 soldier gets his comeuppance - initial delights at the idea of a massage from nurse on the Monday turns into stark realisation tat this might not be quite so pleasurable
Noblesse oblige - Swiss caring for injured soldiersNoblesse oblige - Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly. Despite neutrality in world conflict, the Swiss recognise their obligations due to their status to care for those injured in
Back from the Boer War - Scene at a London Terminus of a wounded soldie returning to his relieved family after his tour to Southern Africa. Date: circa 1901
Domestic Violence discussed on a London streetIn the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a conversation on a London street discussing domestic violence
Rescuing a wounded comrade under fire - WWI. One of the soldiers of a Russian regiment rescue a wounded comrade. This noble rescuer was afterwards discovered to be a young woman who had joined up as
Malta - One of the Convalescent Camps - WWI. Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless
Malta - St Patricks Convalescent Camp - WWIMalta - St Patricks Convalescent Camp. The caption (written by a soldier recoving at the camp) detais various tents as the Y.M.C.A, the Cookhouse and the Surgical Ward
Malta - Ghain Tuffieha Camp Hospital - WWIMalta - Ghain Tuffieha Camp Hospital (St Peters Camp). Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless
Wounded soldier dictates a letter to his Mother, aided by a kindly member of the nursing team. Date: 1904
WWI - Girl gives a party to wounded soldiersA young girl hosts a garden party picnic for wounded soldiers invalided home from the Western Front - instead of receiving her usual Birthday presents Date: circa 1916
Injured footballer - Aston VillaCartoon postcard of an injured footballer entitled The Result of the Match by Martin Anderson ( Cynicus ) - this was template over-printed with the details of various teams, in this case
Fierce shot blasts Goalkeeper into his own goalA fearsome shot from an opposing striker smashes into the face of a hapless Goalkeeper, carrying the ball and the keeper back over the line
PIZARRO, Hernando (1475-1578). Spanish conqueror
Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905). Arrival to" Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905). Arrival to Tokyo of the first injured of the battle of Ya-Lu (February 1904). Picture by Achille Beltrame for " La Domenica del Corriere"
Three Injured firemen taken to Barts HospitalFollowing a fire that occurred in a flour wharf in Commercial Road, Whitechapel, three injured firemen (right) are placed in a senior officers staff car
The French Red Cross" The French Red Cross never forgets them..." A superb stylised postcard praising the efforts of the French Red Cross in World War Two - entering the warzone with supplies to aid
Convalescent Wounded Soldiers - WWIDuring the First World War, injured soldiers returning from the front were often billeted in Stately homes and grand houses
Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street
Blind Veteran Soldier - St Dunstans HostelSet up in 1915, St Dunstans Hostel aided the recovery of servicemen blinded during the First World War. This is a charity postcard produced for St Dunstans showing a blinded serviceman being led by a
Spanish Bullfighting Series (4 / 12)Spanish Bullfighting Series. Horses injured by the bull. Date: 1913
Messina Earthquake - Victor Emmanuel IIIMessina Earthquake - Visit of the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947), who assisted the First Aid relief effort
British Chaplain writes for a wounded soldierA British Chaplain writing home for a wounded British Tommy, seated on a stretcher with injuries to his right leg circa 1916
Air ambulanceAn air ambulance owned by the Swedish Red Cross at sea. Malmo, 1923. Date: 1923
Melilla, MoroccoThe entrance to Hospital Reinando S.M. Alfonso XIII at Melilla, Morocco. The second Rif War was a conflict in 1909 in Morocco around Melilla
