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| Picture No | 10823552 |
| Date | 1916 |
| Description | Work of the London Ambulance Column, WW1 |
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Wounded soldiers on stretchers (cot cases), having arrived in London via a hospital train are pictured inside an ambulance being offered bananas and a packet of cigarettes by an attending nurse. 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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| Source | Illustration by Donald Macpherson in The Sphere, 22 July 1916 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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