cover image: Emergency operation of bombing casualty

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Emergency operation of bombing casualty

Emergency operation of bombing casualty in Harar Red Cross , hospital ._x000D_ These pictures , made by a staff photographer and rushed to London by air , show an improtant , but little known part of the war in Abyssinia , the Red Cross services , established mainly by voluntary workers and carried on under tremendous difficulties . These pictures were made in the Red Cross hospital at Harar , chief city of the South where Abyssinian soldiers wounded in the fierce fighting on the southern front are being attended by doctors of the Swedish Mission ._x000D_ Photo shows , an emergency operation on an Abyssinian soldier wounded in a bombing raid , performed by Mr Buxton of the Swedish Mission , in the Red Cross hospitals at Harar ._x000D_ Abyssinian student doctors watch the operation with keen interest ._x000D_ 26 November 1935
health press twentieth century monochrome europeana photography topfoto black and white between the wars 30s 30's 1930s 1930's thirties nineteen thirties press photography planet news 30s, 30's, 1930s, 1930's, thirties, nineteen thirties 48411,misc
Place Discussed
Egypt 26/11/1935
Published in
Egypt
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Source
Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2024904/https___www_topfoto_co_uk_asset_3049023

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