WW1 SKETCHES OF MUIRHEAD BONE.

On the outbreak of the First World War the War Propaganda Bureau recruited Bone as Britain's first official war artist. He was appointed as an honorary second lieutenant and arrived in France during the Battle of the Somme.

These sketches illustrate the transport of wounded from the Battle of the Somme. They were published in 1917 in Muirhead Bone's book "The Western Front". The captions to the pictures are the original text from Muirhead Bone's "The Western Front".

• Medical Officers waiting for the wounded near the Somme
• Field Dressing Station
• At a VAD Rest Station in a railway station in France
• A midnight scene at the base railway station
• Two sketches of Red Cross Barges transporting wounded on the Somme River
• A Hospital Ship at Rouen Harbour
• Ambulances at the Quayside embarking wounded from the Somme on board a Hospital Ship
• Ambulances waiting on the Quay at Boulogne Harbour at low tide
• Embarking a stretcher case
• On board a Hospital Ship
• Night on board a ward of a Hospital Ship
• Sleeping wounded soldiers on board the ship
• Three sketches of walking wounded on the deck of a hospital ship.
• A Hospital Ship about to leave a French harbour

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