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Project Facade
The First World War was a war dominated by high explosives and heavy artillery. Battlefield casualties included an unprecedented number with horrific facial injuries - injuries so severe the men were commonly unrecognizable to loved ones and friends. Often unable to see, hear, speak eat or drink, they struggled to re-assimilate back into civilian life. This secondary tragedy - the living unable to "live" - catalyzed Surgeon Sir Harold Gillies to transform the fledgling discipline of plastic surgery based on his unrivalled observation of the profoundly wounded and his ability to push the parameters of the profession beyond all known techniques.
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The Gillies Archives at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup
Welcome to the website that describes the most complete archive of medical notes from the Great War in the world.
The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup performed plastic surgery of the face between 1917 and 1925, and today's Queen Mary's Hospital possesses a unique collection of over 2500 case files relating to that era. The pages that follow show details of the collection; in addition there is background information about the present-day hospital and the Postgraduate Centre as well as the medical bibliography of the Great War and some useful links to sites about the war, plastic surgery and rheumatology.
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Scarlet Finders
British Military Nurses from 1875
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This Intrepid Band
Information and chat about women who served as military nurses from the Boer War through to the end of the Great War
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The Happy Hospital
The Happy Hospital
Scenes from the Third London General Hospital Wandsworth
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Useful Web Links 
