Hospital ward showing cots on board a Royal Naval Hospital barge, North Russian Expeditionary Force, May 1918 to October 1919. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

Negative number 1209 of Knapp's original exhibition list

The North Russian Expeditionary Force were sent to the Marmonsk Peninsula, Russia to prevent the further transfer of German troops to the western frontier following the German and Russian peace agreement March 1918. Courier ships were another means of ferrying the wounded to clearing stations.The hospital beds on board were termed 'cots'

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 which were used in an exhibition about the sick and wounded on board men or war of various types in Royal Naval Hospital ships, ambulance trains and hospitals. 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 10 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection 586116i