Boer War: wounded soldiers waiting outside a field hospital for examination by the surgeon. Halftone after R. Thiele, c.1900.

1900

1 print : halftone

Waiting for the surgeon ... our illustration, which is from a photograph by our Special Photographer, Reinhold Thiele, shows men waiting to have their wounds examined at Paardeberg Drift Field Hospital Lettering continues: "when the wounded are carried from the field, they are attended to at the field hospital before being sent down to the base hospital"

Wellcome Collection 23381i