1914

Franco-American dentist Auguste Charles Valadier receives temporary commission and assigned to British No. 13 Stationary Hospital, where he developed technique for irrigating facial wounds with boiling water via use of an apparatus (“fire engine”) he developed. Established a jaw unit in nearby Wintereux to handle maxillofacial injuries from first battle of Ypres. There Gillies begins collaboration with Valadier (Fitzharris II, 46).