Contact: Dr Andrew Bamji FRCP, bamji@btinternet.com
Website address: http://www.gilliesarchives.org.uk/
The field of plastic surgery grew out of treating injuries in the First World War. The Hospital Archives were decommissioned and material was sent to other archives in the UK. The Archive material was divided as follows:
- WW1 casenotes and Rooksdown Hospital Notes (military to 1946 and civilian to 1960) are now at the Royal College of Surgeons, London
- Plastic surgery ephemera and images are held by BAPRAS (British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons)
- General military medical material has been donated to the Army Medical Services Museum, Keogh Barracks, Aldershot
- The WW1 medicine and surgery library is now housed at the Brotherton Library, Leeds (The Bamji Collection)
The website still offers pictures and information related to the WWI plastic surgery.