Medical History of WWI

Contemporary Photographs and Sketches

Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) trained initially as an architect and was appointed as Britain's first official war artist at the beginning of World War One. We are grateful to Mr Leslie Graham of London who provided these sketches of the transport of wounded during WW1. They come from Muirhead Bone's book, "The Western Front" published in 1917. Bone, who was knighted in 1937 also served as a war artist during the Second World War.

Contemporary Photographs of Medical or Ambulance Personnel

Dr James Herman Poulton in US Army Medical Corps uniform

The medical orderlies of the American Red Cross Hospital at Beaune, Cote d'Or France.

Meeting old friends from U.S. Ambulance Service #543. Courtesy, Les Peters.

Lt. Austin and Pvt. Goodman from 2nd U.S. Division (?) with French medical personnel at St. Remy, July 1918. Courtesy, Les Peters

British Ambulance quot;Britannica". From photo scrap book of Pvt. William Voss, 332nd. (US) Infantry, stationed in Italy, fall 1918.

Italian ambulance, 1918.

Italian dressing station in shell hole, 1918.