Wounded: Science Museum Resources

A transfusion set.
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A selection of resources from the Science Museum's 'Wounded' exhibition. For further details see the exhibition blog page at https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/tag/wounded/.

WW1 stretcher bearers.
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A WW1 member of Blind Veterans with a Braille watch.
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A 'Braille' watch.
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A pastel sketch by Henry Tonks showing facial injuries suffered by a young soldier.
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Basket weaving at Milner House the 'Ex-Servicemen's Welfare Society' (now known as 'Combat Stress') offered a range of occupations, including basket weaving, to veterans suffering the psychological after-effects of conflict in WW1.
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Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm outside their advanced dressing station in Pervyse, near Ypres.
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First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANYs) in ambulances.
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Members of Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps marching in a funeral procession for those killed in an enemy air raid near Abbeville on the night of 29th May 1918.
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