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Dr Andrew Bamji
Consultant Rheumatologist and Curator of The Gillies Archives Queen Marys Hospital Sidcup
Dr. Bamji has been Curator of the hospital’s Gillies Archives since 1989, in which capacity he has lectured widely on the subject of facial injury in the Great War, with special reference to artistic and photographic representation and documentation. Venues have included University College London, the Wellcome Institute, the National Army Museum, the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, the Royal Society of Medicine, various branches of the Western Front Association and a number of medical and local history meetings. He has written several papers about work at the hospital, and contributed to the anthology compiled by Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle “Facing Armageddon”, and maintains a website incorporating much material from the collections at Sidcup, together with the authoritative bibliography of WW1 medicine and surgery. Dr Bamji has provided help and advice to numerous researchers both at home and abroad, and has participated in, or advised on, several television documentaries about the war and plastic surgery.
Dr. Andrew Bamji is a full-time clinician, being a consultant at Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup in rheumatology/rehabilitation. First appointed to Sidcup in 1983, he has published widely on rheumatological subjects and writes a monthly column for the British Society for Rheumatology’s journal “Rheumatology”.
