GREY AND SCARLET
  • Home
  • About
  • New Photos
  • War Hospitals
    • Hampshire War Hospitals >
      • The Cambridge Military Hospital. Aldershot. Hampshire >
        • Nursing Staff - CMH Aldershot
      • The Connaught Hospital. Aldershot. Hampshire >
        • Nursing Staff - Connaught Hospital
      • The Royal Victoria Military Hospital. NETLEY. Southampton. Hampshire >
        • Nursing Staff R V Hospital Netley
        • Recent visit to Netley
      • Reading War Hospital >
        • Nursing Staff - Reading War Hospital
    • London War Hospitals >
      • 2nd London General Hospital.St Mark's College, 552 King's Road, Chelsea >
        • Nursing Staff 2nd London Hospital
      • 3rd London General Hospital (LGH) Wandsworth. London SW >
        • Female staff list - 3rd LGH Wandsworth during Oct 1915-Sept 1916
        • A letter from Eleanor C. Barton Principal Matron
      • 5th London General Hospital TF. (St Thomas's Hospital) Lambeth. London SE
      • Queen Mary's Convalescent Hospital. Roehampton. SW15. Dover House Auxiliary Hospital. Roehampton Gifford House Auxiliary Hospital. Roehampton
      • Royal Herbert Hospital Shooters Hill Woolwich
      • Colchester Military Hospital Essex. >
        • Nursing Staff Colchester Military Hospital
    • West Midlands War Hospitals >
      • 1st Southern General Hospital. Selly Oak. Birmingham. (University of Birmingham) ​& 2/1st General Hospital. Dudley Road. Birmingham. (annex to the 1st Southern) >
        • Nursing Staff List - West Midlands
      • Moor Green House Military Hospital. (4th Auxiliary) ​Moseley. (Attached to the 1st Southern General, Birmingham)
    • France War Hospitals >
      • No 3 British General Hospital. Le Treport
      • No8 General Hospital. 147 Avenue de Marechal. Bois-Guillaume ROUEN. France.
      • The British Women's Hospital, Paris. Dr Garrett-Anderson & Dr Flora Murray
    • Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol >
      • Nursing Staff Beaufort War Hospital
    • Bath War Hospital
    • Queen Mary's Hospital. Frognal Avenue. Sidcup. Kent >
      • Nursing Staff Queen Mary's Sidcup
    • 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge >
      • Nursing Staff List - 1st Eastern General Cambridge
    • Queen Victoria Cottage Hospital. East Grinstead
    • Stepping Hill Military Hospital. Stockport >
      • Nursing Staff Stepping Military Hospital
    • 5th Northern general Hospital. Leicester >
      • Nursing Staff - 5th Northern Hospital
    • Canadian Hospitals and Nurses
    • New Zealand Hospitals.
  • Nurses
  • My Collection
  • Related Articles
    • A letter from Eleanor C. Barton Principal Matron
    • The origin of The 3rd London general Hospital. Wandsworth
    • Four London Hospitals
    • Anna Coleman Ladd
    • Nurse Dunford
  • Links
  • Contact
  • Untitled

​Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. Kent


This hospital was purpose built to treat the wounded with facial injuries. Unfortunately, the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot (the first plastics unit in the British Empire) did not have the capacity to continue to treat the numbers of wounded after the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Queen Mary's opened in July 1917 initially with 300 beds quickly increasing to 500. New Zealander Harold Gillies took command of the hospital with Henry Pickerill looking after the New Zealand Section. They set about restoring the badly damaged faces of the soldiers. Gillies introduced the tubed pedicle and helped pioneer tissue transfer. These surgical procedures would be done in stages and patients would endure many operations and treatment often taking years to complete. Detailed records were kept for each patient in the form of documents, diagrams and illustrations.  A wonderful source of information are the Gillies archives at Queen Mary's Sidcup. www.gilliesarchives.org.uk

Please feel free to contact me at helen@greyandscarlet.com