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FURTHER READING &
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 


PRINCIPAL TESTIMONIES

  • Private Percy Clare: Private papers of, Imperial War Museum (IWM Documents.15030).

  • Sergeant Reginald Evans: Pamela Armitage Campbell, Reg Evans DCM: A Hero’s War in His Own Words, (Ebook: ITV Ventures, 2014).

  • Lieutenant John Glubb: Sir John Bagot Glubb, Into Battle: A Soldier’s Diary of the Great War, (Swindon: Book Club Associates, 1978).

  • Private Joseph Pickard: Oral history interview, conducted by Peter Hart, 1986, (IWM 8946).

  • Captain John Wilson: Private papers of, Imperial War Museum (IWM Documents.12007)

FURTHER READING

General​

  • Andrew Bamji, Faces from the Front, (Warwick: Helion & Company, 2017).
  • Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, (London: Penguin, 2022).
  • Joanna Bourke, Dismembering the Male, (London: Reaktion Books, 1999).
  • Jessica Meyer, Men of War, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
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IWM (Q 93186)

​​​​​​Sustaining Injuries 

  • Andrew Bamji, 'From Injury to Blighty' in Faces from the Front.
  • Jessica Meyer, An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
  • ​Lyn Macdonald, The Roses of No Man's Land, (London: Penguin, 1980).
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Medical Treatment

  • ​Andrew Bamji, '"A New Art": The Innovative Treatment of Facial Injuries' in Faces from the Front.
  • Reginald Pound, Gillies: Surgeon Extraordinary, (London: M. Joseph, 1964).
  • Claire Chatterton, 'Working in a 'World of Hurt': Nursing and Medical Care Following Facial Injury During World War One', Nursing: Traditions, Ruptures and Specialisations, 3 (2021), 24-43.
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Effaced from Society

  • ​​Suzannah Biernoff, 'The Rhetoric of Disfigurement in First World War Britain', Social History of Medicine, 24:3 (2011), 666-685.
  • Marjorie Gehrhardt, 'The Destiny and Representations of Facially Disfigured Soldiers during the First World War and the Interwar Period in France, Germany and Great Britain', University of Exeter (2013).
  • Lindsey Fitzharris, 'Tin Noses and Steel Hearts' in The Facemaker.
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The Boys on Blue Benches

  • ​Andrew Bamji, ‘Facial Surgery: The Patient’s Experience’, in Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle, Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experience, (Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Limited, 1996).
  • Eilis Boyle, '​‘An uglier duckling than before’: Reclaiming agency and visibility amongst facially-wounded ex-servicemen in Britain after the First World War', Science Direct, 13:4 (2019), 308-322.
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Remembering and Forgetting

  • ​Jay Winter, Remembering War, (London: Yale University Press, 2006).
  • Helen McCartney, ‘The First World War soldier and his contemporary image in Britain’, International Affairs, 90:2 (2014), 299-315.
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Facial Injury Beyond Britain 

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Facial Injury in Women

  • The small number of female cases and lack of information limit our understanding of facially-injured women, but they did exist. Records show that there was at least one female patient at the Queen’s Hospital. Dr Andrew Bamji notes: “The only woman mentioned in the records was a member of staff who received a facial injury from the blow of a golf club; there was no mention in the notes of how it occurred and it may be invidious to observe that Harold Gillies was a keen golfer.”
    (Michael Smith, 'First World War Facial Injuries', J R Soc Med, 88:10 (1995), 601-602).​​​

If you can't find what you're looking for or have a specific question, please get in touch.

Faces of the First World War has benefitted from the help and support of many people.

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For their guidance, I would like to thank Naomi Lebens, Head of Cultural Services at Royal Holloway, University of London for her expertise on exhibitions, and my supervisor for his advice and encouragement. â€‹

 

For the use of their collections, I would like to thank Dr Andrew Bamji and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Thanks also go to the contributors to the Great War Forum for their helpful directions to sources and research.

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For their contributions to the project, particular thanks go to Changing Faces campaigners David and Dylan for generously sharing their experiences of living with a facial difference, and to Shelley for coordinating the interview. A final thank you goes to Tom, Paddy, Graham and Michael for bringing the voices of the servicemen to life. ​


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