Stretcher Collection (page 2)

Firefighters in training with resuscitation stretcher
Firefighters in training, rocking a resuscitation stretcher

The Transit of Venus - Comic Postcard
A comic postcard depiting a rotund woman (a very classical frame!) being transported home from the pub by two stretcher-bearing Bobbies

Combined Civil Defence exercise, WW2
Civil defence rescue workers carrying a casualty from the exercise site. A policewoman and a nurse are with the rescue team

Injured American soldier at Boureville, France, WW1
An 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

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

Greek art. A gift for the god of healing. Macedonia. Asklepios. C. 420 B.C. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

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

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

VAD Ambulances at Quex Park
The two Quex Park VAD Ambulances are parked outside the front of Quex House. A stretcher is being unloaded from Q1, while Q2 alongside is closed up

Thanet VAD Motor Transport Group and stretcher bearers outside The Yarrow Home for Convalescent Children (date - journal). Sir Alfred Yarrow opened this home in 1894

Roman transport paraphernalia. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

Portable bed and stretcher tent, WW1
Portable bed and stretcher tent for use at the Dardanelles (left). On the right is the tent with the mosquito net removed. Date: 1915

German boy scout on First Aid exercise
German boy scout on a First Aid exercise, pulling a stretcher made from skis

Firefighters in training with various equipment in a drill yard

Verdun - An advanced dressing station on the heights, WW1
Verdun - An advanced dressing station on the heights behind the town, by Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC IS (1886-1935), ambulance driver and official artist with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1916-1917

Boys of Norwood Scout Troop, South Africa
Boys of Norwood Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa, ambulance team, with a boy lying on a stretcher

1st Hillbrow Scout Troop, with stretcher
Boys of 1st Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa, with a boy on a stretcher

Scouts of No. 1 Troop, Bombay, India
Scouts of No.1 Troop, Bombay, India, with a covered trek cart

British soldier relaxing on a stretcher, Somme, WW1
A British soldier relaxing and reading the news on an abandoned German stretcher on the Somme, Western Front, during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Dogs doing their wartime duty, WW1
Dogs doing their wartime duty in the early weeks of the First World War. No longer a life of idleness -- Fido the Fop has had his day, and Trusty Tim comes into his own

Evacuating hospital patients in World War Two
Evacuating hospital patients from Westminster Hospital under the threat of air raids in World War Two. In accordance with the government evacuation scheme at the start of the war

Wounded Insurgent
A wounded insurgent is carried away on a makeshift stretcher, waving to encourage his comrades. Date: 27 July 1830

Westland Dragonfly with stretcher panniers

Bristol Sycamore Mk4 G-AMWI
Bristol Sycamore Mk4, G-AMWI, being loaded with stretcher patients

Firefighters during a chemical incident exercise, Egerton Road, Twickenham

Joyce Green Hospital - motor ambulance
A patient on a stretcher is being removed from a motor ambulance at the Joyce Green Smallpox Hospital at Long Reach near Dartford

Silhouettes of soldiers in wartime
Some of our lads -- silhouettes of soldiers in wartime. Including a piper playing the bagpipes, men standing on guard or chatting, a drummer, men carrying tools and materials for trench digging

British Chaplain writes for a wounded soldier
A British Chaplain writing home for a wounded British Tommy, seated on a stretcher with injuries to his right leg circa 1916

Air ambulance
An air ambulance owned by the Swedish Red Cross at sea. Malmo, 1923. Date: 1923

Turkish field artillery in action, WW1
Turkish field artillery in action during the First World War. Men of the Red Crescent (left) are carrying a wounded man on a stretcher. Date: 1914-1918

US Army Field Hospital and early ambulance - WWI Date: circa 1918

Busy communication trench, Mesopotamia, WW1
A busy communication trench in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during an action, with walking wounded and stretcher cases, during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1918

Avalanche victim aided by St Bernards
At the Hospice du Grand Saint- Bernard (2472m), dogs are trained to rescue unfortunate travellers who lose their way in the darkness and snow on the Alpine pass

Ambulance / Car Accident
An ambulance at the scene of a road accident Date: mid 1950s

MAB First Ambulance
Side view of one of the first ambulances to be operated by Londons Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1880s for transporting fever and smallpox patients to and from the Boards hospitals

The interior of a British air ambulance
A photograph of a patient on a stretcher, with another stretcher above. The interior of the spacious cabin of a Vickers Vimy aeroplane equipped for medical purposes

Women at War / Medical
British women volunteer for medical work

Four bearers and patient (2 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (2 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (1 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (1 of 6)

Two bearers and patient (1 of 2)
Method of lifting a patient onto a stretcher, with two bearers. (1 of 2)

Four bearers and patient (5 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (5 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (6 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (6 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (3 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (3 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (4 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (4 of 6)

Beaune Hotel Dieu
A stretcher case is carried into the Hotel-Dieu at Beaune (which still stands today)

Franco-Pruss / Strasbourg
A Prussian bombardment of Strasbourg, across water, at night, firing with canons

Liverpool Infirmary
Crowd gathers around Stretcher case brought to Liverpool Infirmary, Brownlow Street

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