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• Greece: An orphanage. Curing scabies with anachryl

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1945

  image: A distressed young girl being painted with anachryl by a masked nurse, attended by two women, a priest and two British soldiers. Three other children await their turn.

• The Gymnasium : Dermatological Ward, Colchester Military Hospital

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward 1943

  image: A view of a low red brick building on the top of an embankment, drawn from below. Men wearing blue trousers and khaki shirts lie about in the sunshine on the grass below the building.

• Recruit's Progress: Medical Inspection

  (art) Made by: Weight, Carel Victor Morlais (CBE, RA) 1942

  image: New recruits are lined up for inspection; all are stripped to the waist. The inspector sits at a table, head leaning on an elbow, while a recruit faces him, arms in the air and trousers round his ankles. Foreground right, a recruit, full...

• Occupational Workshop at a Convalescent Depot

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony 1942

  image: soldiers at work at a row of work benches. In the foreground a soldier with a bandaged foot sits next to his crutches working on a boot. On the floor is a can of oil and some machine parts. At the back of the room the men are working with wood.

• A Wounded Man In A Hospital Bed

  (art) Made by: Kennington, Eric Henri (RA)

  image: a wounded soldier lies in a hospital bed, looking straight at the viewer. His head is propped up on a pillow, only his head and shoulders visible from underneath a blanket.

• Saline Infusion: An incident in the British Red Cross Hospital, Arc-en-Barrois, 1915

  (art) Made by: Tonks, Henry 1915

  image: A patient undergoing a saline infusion on a hospital ward in northern France. The wounded man lies in bed propped up on pillows, his taut upper body and tight neck muscles revealing the pain he experiences as the doctor sitting beside him appears...

• The Wounded At Dover, 1918

  (art) Made by: Lavery, John (Sir) (RA) (RSA) 1918

  image: A scene of the platform at Dover railway station. Wounded soldiers are boarding a hospital train. A group of wounded stand in the foreground, to the right lie others on stretchers, one tended by a nurse. There are khaki clad figures along the...

• A Freight of Pain : on the way to the hospital at Port Said

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-23

  image: several wounded soldiers and attending personnel lie and sit on the deck of a boat on the way to hospital at Port Said. To the right four men lie on stretchers, all of them with bandaged heads. In the centre a man in khaki shorts lies on his side...

• The Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries, Frognal, Sidcup : the commercial class

  (art) Made by: Lobley, J Hodgson 1918

  image: The interior of a classroom, with convalescent soldiers recovering from facial injuries sitting at desks. Most of the men wear blue suits typical of convalescent hospitals, with two men towards the back of the room in khaki uniform. Some of the...

• Wounded passing through Snow Hill Railway Station, Birmingham

  (art) Made by: Lobley, J Hodgson 1918

  image: A scene at a railway station with walking wounded British soldiers and a nurse on the station platform, with a stationary train on the left. The men drink from white mugs and there is a food stall in the foreground.