Taking the wounded aboard a British ambulance train on the Western Front: Nurses and orderlies lifting wounded soldiers to their compartments on board a British ambulance train in France

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Fortunino Matania, R.I. (1881-1963)
Taking the wounded aboard a British ambulance train on the Western Front: Nurses and orderlies lifting wounded soldiers to their compartments on board a British ambulance train in France
signed 'F. Matania' (lower right)
pencil, pen and black ink and grey wash heightened with white
15 ¼ x 21 ¼ in. (38.7 x 54 cm.)

Literature

The Sphere, 6 May 1916, vol. 65, no. 850, pp 136-7.

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Lot Essay

"On arrival at railhead or any other place where sick and wounded are to be taken up, the O.C. of the train receives from the Ambulance Train Embarkation Medical Officer a list of patients who are for the train, so many "sitting" cases and so many "lying" or stretcher cases. Either he or one of the two junior M.O.'s of the train, or both of them, remain on the platform and with this list check each patient as he arrives and detail him to a place on the train. The sisters remain on the train and receive the patients and settle them in comfortably and see them fed and attended to. Orderlies also remain on each coach to help receive them. Other orderlies unload the patients from the ambulances and carry them to the medical officer."

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