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Waiting for the Wounded
Bone, Sir W. Muirhead, 1916, Publisher's print
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33569
Title
Waiting for the Wounded
Description
Accompanying text reads:
"A British advance has just begun, and the surgeons of a Divisional Collecting Station near the Somme are awaiting the arrival of the first laden stretcher-bearers. In a few minutes the three officers will be at work, perhaps for twenty-four hours on end. At one Casualty Clearing Station a distinguished surgeon performed, without resting, nineteen difficult operations, each lasting more than an hour, in cases of severe abdominal wounds, where delay would have meant the loss of life. In almost every case the man was saved. Another surgeon operated for thirty-six hours without relief. Such devotion is not exceptional in the R.A.M.C."
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Bone, Sir W. Muirhead
Date
1916
Size
13.5 x 21.6 cm
Type
Publisher's print
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Art and Design Library
Copyright
Crown Copyright
You can find more information on
military hospitals during World War I
on the web site, The Long, Long Trail: The British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918 and the
Royal Army Medical Core (R.A.M.C.)
on the British Army website.
Muirhead Bone was Britain's first official war artist and also a driving force behind the foundation of the Imperial War Museum. Find out more about the history and collections of the museum from the
Imperial War Museum
website.
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