'f' and 'h' Force Hospital, Canchanburi, Siam Art.IWMART1541761
'English: f' and 'h' Force Hospital, Canchanburi, Siam image: A view across 'F' and 'H' Force Hospital camp in Kanburi in Thailand. There is a line of several large bamboo huts to the left, with a more rudiment... More
16th US Medical Regiment - Field Dental Service operating during an at...
16th US Medical Regiment - Field Dental Service operating during an attack image: A dentist wearing US Army uniform tends to a patient sitting in a chair and covered with a white sheet. Another man in US Army u... More
A Bunyan-stannard First-aid Envelope for Protection against Infection ...
A Bunyan-stannard First-aid Envelope for Protection against Infection in Burns, as issued to the RAF image 1: a pilot in a cockpit with the first aid envelope placed over his hand as he holds the fastening taug... More
A Bunyan-stannard Irrigation Envelope for the Treatment of Burns being...
A Bunyan-stannard Irrigation Envelope for the Treatment of Burns being applied by Sister Roberts in Middlesex Hospital image: a patient lies in bed with his arm in an irrigation envelope. The sister stands next... More
A Child Bomb-victim Receiving Penicillin Treatment Art.IWMARTLD5775
A Child Bomb-victim Receiving Penicillin Treatment image: A child in a hospital bed with a drip attached to their arm and their leg is raised in a support.
A Greek Refugee Family from Samos at Moses Wells Encampment, Arabia - ...
A Greek Refugee Family from Samos at Moses Wells Encampment, Arabia - with Red Cross workers image: a Greek refugee family sit around a makeshift table in a tent repairing nets, while answering a Red Cross work... More
A Hospital Supply Depot Art.IWMARTLD237
A Hospital Supply Depot image: WVS women at work at their sewing machines in a crowded room with large windows, overlooking some trees.
A Medical Aid Post in a Tube Station. Sister has a new patient Art.IWM...
A Medical Aid Post in a Tube Station. Sister has a new patient image: A sister greets a woman and small boy who are entering the room. Behind her is a table with kettle, teapot and cups.
A Military Hospital, Middle East Art.IWMARTLD1075
A Military Hospital, Middle East image: Interior of a hospital ward lined with bunks containing patients
A Mobile First Aid Unit at work Art.IWMARTLD1519
A Mobile First Aid Unit at work image: an interior in which a male medical orderly, wearing a tin helmet and white uniform, and a female nurse attend to a patient lying in a wrought iron framed bed. The nurse w... More
A Patient in a Medical Aid Post Art.IWMARTLD861
A Patient in a Medical Aid Post image: A man sits on a chair having his hand bandaged by a woman who is standing next to him. A nurse stands next to them with her back to the viewer. Behind the figures there i... More
Able Seaman William Birnie of Ss Highlander Art.IWMARTLD357
Able Seaman William Birnie of Ss Highlander image: A three-quarter length portrait of Able Seaman William Birnie lying in bed, propped up with pillows. His hands lie clasped in his lap.
Acquired by the War Artists Advisory Committee under the scheme to enc...
Acquired by the War Artists Advisory Committee under the scheme to encourage the painting of local war activities by Native-born Colonial artists. The scheme favoured work that avoided imitation of European ar... More
An Emergency Operation in a Hospital Ward, Athens, 1941 Art.IWMARTLD38...
An Emergency Operation in a Hospital Ward, Athens, 1941 image: A emaciated patient in a hospital ward slumps back on his pillow having just been injected by an orderly, while two masked surgeons work on his raised leg.
An Impression of a Gas Cleansing Exercise at a First Aid Post - eye ir...
An Impression of a Gas Cleansing Exercise at a First Aid Post - eye irritation image: A nurse administers treatment to the eye of a young woman, who sits naked in front of her. The nurse wears uniform and holds... More
An Impression of a Gas Cleansing Exercise at a First Aid Post - the co...
An Impression of a Gas Cleansing Exercise at a First Aid Post - the contaminated undress image: Two women stand back to back undressing, while a third sits on the floor leaning forward.
Archibald Mcindoe - Consultant in Plastic Surgery to the Royal Air For...
Archibald Mcindoe - Consultant in Plastic Surgery to the Royal Air Force, operating at the Queen Victoria Plastic and Jaw Injury centre, East Grinstead image: The plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe conducting an... More
Arp Practice Art.IWMARTLD371
Arp Practice image: in the background firemen fight a fire on the third floor of a building while in the foreground ARP officers wearing overalls and gas masks carry stretchers to ambulances. One figure in the ... More
Blood Transfusion - Filtering serum Art.IWMARTLD3589
Blood Transfusion - Filtering serum Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Blood-transfusion - Pouring citrate solution into blood bottles Art.IW...
Blood-transfusion - Pouring citrate solution into blood bottles Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
British Women and Children Interned in a Japanese Prison Camp, Syme Ro...
British Women and Children Interned in a Japanese Prison Camp, Syme Road, Singapore image: The interior of a wooden hut with two large windows behind giving onto sunlit green foliage. In the centre of the flo... More
Bw Whyman, Mbe, Fireman of Ss Highlander Art.IWMARTLD356
Bw Whyman, Mbe, Fireman of Ss Highlander image: A three-quarter length portrait of BW Whyman lying propped up in bed with his hands clasped in his lap.
Dentistry during the Hour of Gas Practice Art.IWMARTLD2362
Dentistry during the Hour of Gas Practice image: a sailor sits in the dentist's chair with his hat on his lap while the dentist leans over him. Two others watch from behind wearing gas masks, while a third, si... More
Free French Officers attached to the Research and Experiment Departmen...
Free French Officers attached to the Research and Experiment Department image: two men stand in the centre of the room, watching light being projected onto an arrangement of crates, tanks, bell jars and piping ... More
From July-September 1941, Gross was sent to record the training of the...
From July-September 1941, Gross was sent to record the training of the ATS. F.A.N.Y. is the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry affiliated to the Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps. The purpose of the F.A.N.Y. is ‘to be o... More
HMS Hunter- the Sick Bay Art.IWMARTLD5481
HMS Hunter- the Sick Bay image: the interior of the sick bay aboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hunter. Several men lie in bunk beds suspended from the walls of the cabin by metal chains, with one man l... More
In a Medical Aid Post - back view of sister Art.IWMARTLD863
In a Medical Aid Post - back view of sister image: A sister is seem with her back to the viewer talking to a man leaning against the wall. Behind them is curtained cubicle and a cabinet holding some bottles.
In a Medical Aid Post Art.IWMARTLD865
In a Medical Aid Post image: Two nurses stand next to a seated man who is raising his hand for them to inspect. image verso: Study for the finished drawing. Line drawing of a nurse.
Inscription verso- 'A certain number of men regardless of condition pi...
inscription verso: 'A certain number of men regardless of condition picked[?] out for heavy labour - 15 hrs at a stretch - Be Beri - malaria - [illeg] exhaustion - ulcers - exhaustion - dystentery - quite [ille... More
It is surprising to see a burned airman fully naked in a bath in Thoms...
A SALINE BATH, RAF HOSPITAL It is surprising to see a burned airman fully naked in a bath in Thomson's painting. His tattooed arms, holding on to the sides of the bath, contrast with the scars on his disfigure... More
Malta - early morning. Looking towards Sicily from a balcony of the 45...
Malta - early morning. Looking towards Sicily from a balcony of the 45th General Hospital during an alert image: a view of the grounds of a military hospital on the Maltese coast looking out to sea. There is a ... More
Miss Marjorie Bayes - a State Certified Midwife Art.IWMARTLD2563
Miss Marjorie Bayes - a State Certified Midwife image: a half length portrait of Marjorie Bayes wearing a nurse's uniform, sitting in a chair with her head leaning on her hand.
Nurse Giving an Injection of Penicilin to a Wounded Man, 15th Canadian...
Nurse Giving an Injection of Penicilin to a Wounded Man, 15th Canadian General Hospital image: Uniformed nurse administering an injection into a patient, assisted by an orderly
Nurse Savage, Vad - Colchester Military Hospital Art.IWMARTLD3050
Nurse Savage, Vad - Colchester Military Hospital image: A head and shoulder portrait of a nurse, facing slightly to the right. Behind her is a large armchair.
Orderly on His Rounds in X Ward, Changi Gaol, Singapore, With Pow's Su...
Orderly on His Rounds in X Ward, Changi Gaol, Singapore, With Pow's Suffering from Starvation and Beri-beri image: The interior of a sparsely furnished hut with four men sitting on bare board beds in the foregr... More
Patients waiting Outside a First Aid Post in a Factory Art.IWMARTLD268...
Patients waiting Outside a First Aid Post in a Factory image: Two figures sitting on chairs in a makeshift waiting room. A curtain dividing this space off from the rest of the interior runs along the left of t... More
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service - a sister interes...
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service - a sister interested in a case image: a QAIMNS nurse in full uniform, in the centre left foreground, places a stethoscope against the back of a bare- chested... More
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service - dressing a leg w...
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service - dressing a leg wound with penicilin image: two QAIMNS nurses, in full uniform, lean over the leg of a male patient dressing a deep wound half way down the b... More
Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service - syringing the ear of a...
Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service - syringing the ear of a Wrns rating image: a Wren rating sitting side on with a cape tied round her neck and supporting a small dish on her left shoulder, is havin... More
Queueing for the Dentist - Milag Nord Hospital Art.IWMARTLD5114
Queueing for the Dentist - Milag Nord Hospital (Milag = Marine-Internierten-Lager) image: a line of men stand in a queue outside a low wooden hut with a fence.
Ramc Subjects Art.IWMARTLD1883
Ramc Subjects Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ramc Subjects Art.IWMARTLD2022
Ramc Subjects Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rn X-ray Report Art.IWMARTLD5762
Rn X-ray Report image: Two men, their heads seen from behind, look at two X-rays of a human ribcage.
Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich- a Basement Ward Art.IWMARTLD1549
Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich- a Basement Ward image: A view down a ward. All the beds are full. About half way down the ward two nurses are tending to a patient. In the foreground a nurse walks away from t... More
Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich- Basement Ward Art.IWMARTLD1547
Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich- Basement Ward image: A basement ward with three bed-ridden patients. To the right of the image is a large arm chair. To the left are two nurses leaning over a table.
Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich- the Sister Art.IWMARTLD1545
Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich- the Sister image: A view down a hospital ward. The sister is in the foreground looking out from behind a screen. Further down the ward a nurse is talking to a man in uniform.
Shutters- Series of sketches for work in Iwm Art.IWMARTLD6275a
Shutters- Series of sketches for work in Iwm image: A view along a street, showing houses with closed shutters and wires draped across the street, from one building to another. One doorway is marked with a Red... More
Sir Alexander Fleming, Frs, the Discoverer of Penicillin Art.IWMARTLD4...
Sir Alexander Fleming, Frs, the Discoverer of Penicillin image: A portrait of Alexander Fleming, wearing a white coat, at work at a desk inside a laboratory. An array of scientific equipment is placed on the s... More
St Mary's First Aid Post by Candlelight Art.IWMARTLD1442
St Mary's First Aid Post by Candlelight image: The interior of a medical centre. There are a number of nurses in white uniforms around the room, and in the centre a doctor standing over a patient lying on an o... More
Surgeon Lieutenant M J Clow, Rnvr Art.IWMARTLD3222
Surgeon Lieutenant M J Clow, Rnvr image: A half-length portrait of Surgeon Lieutenant M J Clow, depicted in front of a optician's chart and a shelf full of jars.
Table Knife Converted to Surgical Knife and used for Skin Grafting, 19...
Table Knife Converted to Surgical Knife and used for Skin Grafting, 1944
Tarsoa Leg Rest, 1944 Art.IWMARTLD6634
Tarsoa Leg Rest, 1944 image: a right leg supported at an angle by a simple wooden structure. The foot is bandaged. text: Tarsoa leg rest. P Meninsky POW Sept 1944
The Battle of Egypt, 1942- Evacuating the Nurses and Staff of a South ...
The Battle of Egypt, 1942- Evacuating the Nurses and Staff of a South African Hospital from the Forward Area; in a hospital train image: female and male nurses and staff sit inside the carriage of a cramped hos... More
The Indian Ward at the South African 18th Casualty Clearing Station- M...
The Indian Ward at the South African 18th Casualty Clearing Station- Maaten Bagush image: four Indian soldiers sitting in a tent on stretchers with blankets. Equipment hangs from a tent pole beside them.
The Sick Bay of HMS Pursuer - December 1943 Art.IWMARTLD5789
The Sick Bay of HMS Pursuer - December 1943 image: a patient lies in the lower bunk in a sick bay on the aircraft carrier HMS Pursuer, reading with his back to the artist. Above him the upper bunk is partially ... More
Two lines of naked recruits await medical inspection by doctors in a r...
Two lines of naked recruits await medical inspection by doctors in a room Gross received a commission to become an Official War Artist in March 1940, and subsequently remained in Britain for the first year reco... More
Welfare work in a Services Hospital Art.IWMARTLD6000
Welfare work in a Services Hospital image: The interior of a hospital ward with a male patient sitting up in bed with a woman in uniform sitting in a chair beside him. The woman is sewing a piece of material an... More
Wvs Bandage-making Art.IWMARTLD2991
Wvs Bandage-making image: Nurses gathered around a table laden with white sheets. They are tearing the sheets into smaller strips for bandages.
'f' Force Survivors from the 'death Railway' Art.IWMART1541736
f' Force Survivors from the 'death Railway A crowded, chaotic scene showing a flat, water-logged landscape with hills in the distance. In the foreground prisoners sit on the ground between stretchers holding si... More
Atlantic Survivor Art.IWMART17162
Atlantic Survivor image: a sailor wearing a life jacket, lying asleep on a sofa. His head is resting on his hand and his other hand in his pocket.
Carrying Out the Dead, Canchanburi Base Hospital Art.IWMART1541791
Carrying Out the Dead, Canchanburi Base Hospital image: Two prisoners-of-war carry a stretcher, bearing the dead body of a fellow prisoner, through a hut in a hospital camp in Kanburi, Thailand. Fellow prisoner... More
Dysentery Patient, Burma Hospital, Siam Art.IWMART1541787
Dysentery Patient, Burma Hospital, Siam Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kanyu Riverside Camp- Dysentery Ward Art.IWMART16893
Kanyu Riverside Camp- Dysentery Ward image: The interior of a dark bamboo hut. Sleeping platforms run down either side of the hut They are packed with emaciated men sitting or standing. In the foreground one ve... More
Sick and Dying- Camp Konyu, Thailand 1943 Art.IWMART1574797b
Sick and Dying- Camp Konyu, Thailand 1943 The interior of a tent with three figures. All three are severely malnourished and obviously weak. The figure in the foreground lies on a bamboo bed covered with a thin... More
Sick and Dying- Cholera, Tarso Camp, 15 September 1943, Two Months Aft...
Sick and Dying- Cholera, Tarso Camp, 15 September 1943, Two Months After Illness Two sketches of emacitated men, one standing and one in bed covering himself with a blanket. There is an unfinished sketch of a h... More
Sick and Dying- Operating Theatre, Tamarkan Hospital Camp, Kanchanabur...
Sick and Dying- Operating Theatre, Tamarkan Hospital Camp, Kanchanaburi, 2 December 1943. Major Fagin (aif) Operating. Four men assisting a surgeon in an operating theatre, using makeshift equipment. All are dr... More
The Operating Theatre, 'f' Force Hospital, Siam Art.IWMART1541793
The Operating Theatre, 'f' Force Hospital, Siam An outdoor operation in progress at 'F' Force Hospital camp in Thailand. The patient lies on an operating table constructed of bamboo, surrounded by several of h... More
A Bermondsey Rest Centre Art.IWMARTLD1376
A Bermondsey Rest Centre image: The interior of a room of a rest centre full of civilians sitting on chairs, some drinking from mugs. In the centre of the composition a nurse dressed in white uniform stands ta... More
A Bombed Hospital Ward Art.IWMARTLD944
A Bombed Hospital Ward image: two nurses strip a bed with blood-stained sheets in a ward with a large hole blown through the wall. An ARP warden stands near the hole surveying the rubble-strewn floor and the pi... More
A St John's Ambulance Examination in Progress Art.IWMARTLD83
A St John's Ambulance Examination in Progress image: on the right four men hold a strecher with a patient between them. On the left another patient is being attended to on he floor, watched by the examiners.
First Aid Practice Art.IWMARTLD81
First Aid Practice image: a scene in a hall with large windows. Three soldiers are carrying a patient in a makeshift strecher on the left. In the background another soldier is practicing putting a sling on a pa... More
Standing-by on Train 21- One of the Civilian Evacuation trains ready t...
Standing-by on Train 21- One of the Civilian Evacuation trains ready to evacuate casualties at short notice image: View of the interior of a train carriage with medical staff passing the time by knitting and reading
Pacific and Far East- Royal Navy Ww2- Lieutenant Commander, Pacific 19...
Pacific and Far East- Royal Navy Ww2- Lieutenant Commander, Pacific 1945; Wrns Chief Wireless Telephonist, Far East 1945; surgeon Lieutenant Commander, Rnvr, Pacific 1945 image: Three depictions of naval perso... More