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Boer War: a one armed man helps a one legged man. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.

A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.

Boer War: soldiers placing stones over the graves of their comrades on the Modder River. Halftone, c. 1899, after W. W. Russell after A. C. Girdwood.

First World War: two soldiers, one badly wounded, being comforted on the battlefield by a vision of Christ. Colour halftone after G. Hillyard Swinstead, 1915.

Boer War: the deck of a homeward-bound hospital ship about to depart, with two wounded soldiers shaking hands. Gouache painting by W. Small, c. 1900, after D. Gunn.

World War One: indistinct sketched images of wounded naked figures being carried and attended to. Chalk sketch with pencil, c. 1914.

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A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.

Boer War: a one armed man helps a one legged man. Wash drawing by H.H. Piffard.

Boer War: soldiers placing stones over the graves of their comrades on the Modder River. Halftone, c. 1899, after W. W. Russell after A. C. Girdwood.

World War One: indistinct sketched images of wounded naked figures being carried and attended to. Chalk sketch with pencil, c. 1914.

First World War: two soldiers, one badly wounded, being comforted on the battlefield by a vision of Christ. Colour halftone after G. Hillyard Swinstead, 1915.