Work of the London Ambulance Column, WW1

Arrival of a hospital train at a London railway station showing ramps by the doors through which ambulance bearers carry a cot case on a stretcher. During the First World War, ambulance trains arrived daily at the termini of the South Coast railways and the occupants were distributed to the numerous military hospitals around London. As well as meeting trains at Charing Cross, Waterloo, Clapham Junction and elsewhere as required, it undertook removal cases from one hospital to another and to convalescent homes in the country

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Ambulance Bearers Cases Ramps Stretcher Stretchers Termini

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