During the Great War (WW1) a special hospital in Kent England restored facial injuries suffered by soldiers. The Gillies Archives from Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup has many artists' renderings of the patients. There are Canadian as well as United Kingdom soldiers in this database.Pictures of the Week contain many heartbreaking images but they are an invaluable historical record.
The Sidcup Archives as explained on the website is divided into
- WW1 casenotes and Rooksdown Hospital Notes (military to 1946 and civilian to 1960) are now at the Royal College of Surgeons, London
- Plastic surgery ephemera and images are held by BAPRAS. This link takes you to the "History" page where you can learn about the Antony Wallace Collection and other archive material
- General military medical material has been donated to the Army Medical Services Museum, Keogh Barracks, Aldershot
- The WW1 medicine and surgery library is now housed at the Brotherton Library, Leeds (The Bamji Collection)
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