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Anna Coleman Ladd and Francis Derwent Wood

A number of artists were associated with the production of facial prostheses for servicemen whose injuries were so severe that they required partial masks to give the appearance of a ‘complete face’.

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Bioactive© glass facial implants

The material Bioactive glass was invented by American Professor Larry Hench during the Vietnam War. Tasked by the US Government to develop a material which could be used to repair large bone injuries suffered by Servicemen during the war, Professor Hench used silica (glass) as a carried or host material which could be combined with other ingredients such as calcium in a powdered form to pack between bone fragments to fuse shattered bones.

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The Gallipoli Front

Field surgery in the Dardanelles, 1915.
Image courtesy of The Wellcome Library, London.

Winston Churchill is widely credited as the man who committed British, French and - above all - untested Australian and New Zealand forces to the ill-fated campaign to seize control of the Dardanelles Straits and western Turkey. Indeed, although it was Churchill’s drive and aggressiveness - not to mention cunning - which resulted in the campaign actually taking place, the notion of capturing the Turkish Dardanelles Straits had long been given consideration. more...