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A Royal visit to the Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries, Sidcup, 1917

Photograph, World War One, Home Front (1914-1918), 1917.

Queen Mary visits the hospital founded in her honour in 1917. Located in the grounds of Frognal House, it went on to pioneer plastic surgery techniques on wounded servicemen under the leadership of Sir Harold Gillies.

From an album of 54 photographs that belonged to Mr Herbert Cawthorne who served with a Canadian Regiment.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 2010-01-56--13

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2010-01-56--13