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Illustration from a photograph taken from a personal album compiled by Sister Mary Agar who worked in the Canadian Ward at Queen’s Hospital in Sidcup during the Great War. The patients, dressed in their hospital uniforms, are shown in various stages of their reconstructive surgery. Image based on a photograph which is part of the Antony Wallace Archive of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), housed at the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England.
War Dentistry watercolours
letters started to wing their way, with great speed, back and forth to the War Of ce and a few civilian dental practitioners started
to be recruited. It was in 1921 that the War Of ce after much discussion began to recognise the importance of a uniformed dental service resulting in the formation of the Army Dental Corps.
Colonel James Hardy L/RADC, a Trustee of the AMS Museum, was concerned to ensure that Military Dentistry would take
its rightful place in future WW1 exhibitions. He contacted the artist Philip Bannister to enquire whether it would be possible
to purchase his original water colours? Philip was absolutely delighted to discover that his artwork might become part of a permanent display in the Army Medical Services Museum.
A fund raising campaign was launched and through the very generous donations of past members of the Royal Army Dental Corps suf cient funds were quickly obtained to raise the funding not only to purchase the watercolours but also to have them framed. The artist was so moved by his visit to the Museum that he also insisted on making a substantial donation to the appeal.
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