1916

Harold Gillies ordered by British War Office to report to Cambridge Military Hospital, where he establishes his service in facial reconstructive surgery (Fitzharris II, 67ff.). Relocation in early 1917 to Queen’s Hospital in Sidcup, a 320 bed (expanded to 600) maxillofacial specialty hospital with separate British, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian divisions (132ff.) British artist Francis Woods assigned to 3rd London General Hospital, where he begins constructing masks for soldiers with facial deformities (123ff.).