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Kent VAD ambulance at Ramsgate Town StationA 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
Ambulances arriving at Quex Park VAD HospitalMajor 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
Five patients and two nurses outside Quex HouseFive patients and two nurses photographed on the front doorsetp of Quex House. Four of the patients are wearing the hospital uniform of hospital blues worn by Imperial military hospital patients
Group of Belgian and British soldiers at Quex Park, with three members of the VAD staff. The Belgian men are wearing civilian clothes. All the British soldiers are in army uniform
Nurse & Newborn BabyA smiling young nurse carries a newly born baby, cosily wrapped up in a blanket. Date: 1940s
Asylum Pregnant Woman" I ve noticed you re treating this poor creature more kindly?" " Yes, the chief nurse has got her pregnant." Date: 1904
French troop train in World War One at a stationA French military troop train stops at a rural station, somewhere in France, and takes on refreshments and supplies at the military station canteen. Date: 1917
Cartoon, Georges Clemenceau post-WW1Cartoon showing the French statesman Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) kissing and hugging his people, relieved that the war is over. Date: 1919
Nightingale / Anon EngFLORENCE NIGHTINGALE nurse, hospital reformer, philanthropist Date: 1820 - 1910
Ad for DisinfectantA nurse washes her hands with Jeyes Disinfectant Date: circa 1900
Saint Vitus - SchraudolphSaint Vitus ( - 303?) Pictured here with his nurse Crescentia and her husband Modestus
New Years Day GiftsThe nurse holds the baby while its brothers and sisters exchange New Year gifts in a Paris home Date: 1855
NurseYoung girl dressed in the nurses uniform pushing her doll in a push-chair. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: circa 1908
Barnardos Home - Baby BathA baby is given a bath by a nurse at a Barnardos Home, probably the Girls Village Home at Barkingside, Essex. Date: circa 1900
A Womans PastPromotional postcard for A Womans Past, starring popular actress Maisie Hanbury. Touring to Public Hall, Woking, 14th December 1903. Date: 1903
The Probationer who Disagreed with the Matron, H. M. BatemanA hospital matron goes puce and faints with shock at a rookie nurse who has dared to contradict her over the diagnosis of a patient. Date: 1934
Peasant women and children, Russia, WW1Peasant women and children, Russia, during the First World War, possibly visiting an American doctor serving with the Russian Army. Date: circa 1917
Dr Edward H Egbert, American surgeon, Russia, WW1Dr Edward H Egbert, American surgeon, and his staff, outside a Red Cross hospital building in Russia during the First World War. Egbert was Chief Surgeon of the American Red Cross Hospital in Kiev
Nurses by Sydney Blow and Douglas HoarePromotional postcard for Nurses by Sydney Blow and Douglas Hoare; music Philip Braham. First produced at Palace Theatre, Southampton, 10th May 1915
Nurse Benson by R Carlton and Justin Huntly-McCathyPromotional postcard for Nurse Benson by R. Carton and Justin Huntly McCar-thy. First produced Globe Theatre, 21st June 1918
Theatre nurse at Hayle Hospital, CornwallTheatre nurse in an operating theatre at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall. Date: 1980
Two theatre nurses at Hayle Hospital, CornwallTwo theatre nurses in an operating theatre at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall. Date: 1980
Hospital Mess, Quex Park 1917. The Winter Garden, between Quex House and the Museum buildings served as the Mess for the VAD Hospital at Quex Park
A Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in the Drawing Room of Quex House. Originally built as a small ballroom in 1883
B Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in one of the galleries of the Powell-Cotton Museum (currently Gallery 2 (2014)
Masseur at work, Quex Park VAD HospitalJack Hedge, Masseur, at work in C Ward of Quex Park VAD Hospital in 1917. He is watched by eight patients and a VAD nurse
Group on rear verandah, Quex ParkGroup of patients and one nurse on the rear verandah, overlooking the gardens, Quex Park. This verandah ran along the back of the Museum buildings and was used as a sheltered outdoor space in summer
Egg & spoon race, Quex House gardenPatients on crutches, some with amuputated legs, are seen taking part in a race in Quex House garden. They are holding a spoon with an egg in their mouths
A Balia(Nurse) In The Villa Nazionale, NaplesAn Italian nurse in her beautiful uniform sitting in a public garden. The nurses often took care of children in the gardens. Date: 1904
Nurses & Patients, Front Verandah, Quex Park. The Verandah, which was outside A Ward, offered a sheltered, south-facing outdoor space
Nurses & patients, Winter Garden, Quex ParkNurses and patients in the Winter Garden, Quex Park. This room was used as the Hospital Mess. Nurse Fanny Watson is standing, second left
Nurses & Doctor, Quex ParkNurses of the Birchington VAD, together with Medical Officer, Dr Harry Worthington, outside Quex House in early 1915. Seated (left to right) are Alice Cobb, Quartermaster, Hannah Powell-Cotton
Seven VAD nurses at Quex ParkA group of seven VAD nurses standing at the front of the Winter Garden, Quex Park in February 1916. In the centre of the group is Nurse Fanny Watson; second from the right is `nurse Mildred Swinford
VAD nurses, and child, at QuexA group of eight VAD nurses, three seated, are beside the Winter Garden, Quex Park. With them is Antoinette Powell Cotton (1913-1996), dressed as a VAD nurse
Cartoon, No need to worry, WW1Cartoon, No need to worry, showing various complacent people, soldiers and civilians, thinking that war isn t such a bad thing, as they themselves are doing all right. Date: 1916
Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation, WW1Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation. A German patient in a French hospital asks an orderly if he will be ok with his reconstructed chin containing silver
Cartoon, Theres a German in the next bed, WW1Cartoon, Theres a German in the next bed. A French soldier needs to ask the nurse for the chamber pot, but doesn t want the German to hear him in case its sensitive information
Olga Nethersole - English actressOlga Nethersole (1870 - 1951), English actress, theatre producer, wartime nurse and health educator. She received the Royal Red Cross and was created a Commander of the British Empire. 1890
White Lodge childrens home, MarlowA nurse with three young children at the White Lodge childrens home, Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Date: 1940s
National Childrens Home (NCH), Alverstoke - Story TimeNational Childrens Home (NCH), Alverstoke, Hampshire. Young children, surrounded by books and toys, including a rocking horse and an ark, gather around a nurse for a story
Barnardos nurseryA nurse feeds a baby a bottle of milk with other small children gathered around at an unidentified Barnardos nursery. Date: circa 1940
Scyliorhinus stellaris, a species of dogfish, also known as nursehound, bull huss and catshark. Date: 1862
Babys polka, Les Images en MusiqueBabys polka, illustration in Les Images en Musique, with illustrations by Benjamin Rabier and easy pieces for piano by Jane Vieu. Date: 1908
Queen Mary visiting a field hospital, WW1Queen Mary and others visiting a field hospital, WW1, escorted by a nurse. Date: 1914-1918
People in fancy dress on the deck of a ship. Date: circa 1920s
Regency doctors in wigs and frock coats consult with a nurse.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Francis Eginton from Christopher Ansteys The New Bath Guide, John Browne, Bath, 1807
Mr Scotland Liddell, Sphere correspondent on Russian FrontPortrait of Robert Scotland Liddell, special correspondent for The Sphere magazine during the First World War, pictured with a Red Cross nurse
Ministering angels, 1915 - nurses by BlampiedIllustration by Edmund Blampied of scores of First World War nurses of all different nationalities and sections, descending a staircase. Date: 1915
