2-913-909 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Siege of Sebastopol - Mr. Guthrie's Ambulance Waggons, 1854. 'The latest accounts from the Crimea inform us that the Ambulances...have at length reached the spot where they are wanted...although a large number of these vehicles were sent from this country to the East, not one could be obtained to convey the wounded from the field after the battle of Alma....owing to some strange blunder, which has not yet been explained, they were left...while the army marched away to battle. The Ambulances, which are now in daily use, for the conveyance of the sick and wounded, are divided into compartments - one in front, containing six seats, where the slightly wounded can sit back to back, and another division behind, where...there are four berths for patients who have suffered severely. These invalid carriages are drawn by six mules, and driven by postboys...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.