Photograph of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade in India, practising loading with an improvised ambulance, 1915 (c).
The collector of the photograph, Maj Frederic Harvey, remarks that using a railways parcels lorry was his idea.
From a collection of 165 photographs collected by Lt Col Frederic Harvey, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1899 -1942.
Photographs were taken while serving during the Boer War and successively as medical officer attached to the 2nd Middlesex Regiment, as officer commanding No 1 Hospital Train between Durban and Pretoria, and as embarkation medical officer at Durban.
Lt Col Harvey was also a military correspondent to ‘Black & White’ magazine.
Some photographs relate to World War One in India and Ripon, North Yorkshire.
Associated with World War One, India (1914-1918).