Canvas cots for the wounded on board the Royal Naval hospital barge N.R. 245, North Russian Expeditionary Force, May 1918 to October 1919. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Negative number 1219 in Knapp's original exhibition list

The North Russian Expeditionary Force were sent to Marmansk in Russia to prevent the further transfer of German troops to the western frontier following the German and Russian peace agreement March 1918. Hospital barges were used as a means of ferrying the wounded from inland via canals

One of a series of glass negatives collected by Surgeon Commander Montague Henry Knapp, Hon. Director of the Naval Medical Section of the Imperial War Museum and exhibited at Crystal Palace in June 1920. Correspondence in the Wellcome Archives indicates that Knapp (as Hon. Director and organiser for the IWM) was involved in the transfer of surplus naval and military medical material from the Imperial War Museum to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, in setting up exhibits, and in acquiring other materials for the Wellcome collections. Material specifically relating to Knapp's activities in setting up the Naval Warfare Section in the Imperial War Museum have been transferred to the IWM.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1919]

1 photograph : glass photonegative ; glass negative 8.2 x 11 cm

Wellcome Collection 586187i