Sheffield University Medical School is holding a series of lectures from June 25th 2014 for five months describing the work of the 3rd West Riding Field Ambulance which consisted of Sheffield doctors, nursing orderlies, nurses, stretcher bearers and chaplains on the Western Front in France during th…
Lecture by Brian Morgan, Consultant Plastic Surgeon Emeritus on ‘Harold Gillies and the Birth of Plastic Surgery in World War One’ The lecture is preceded by a short introduction of the 3rd West Riding Field Ambulance given by Derek Cullen.
Second lecture of the series by Tom Scotland, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Emeritus on ‘The changing management of abdominal wounds during the Great War; from "laissez faire" to urgent surgical intervention and lessons learned!'’ The lecture is preceded by a short introduction of the 3rd West Riding Field Ambulance given by Derek Cullen.
Introductory Lecture of the series by Tom Scotland, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Emeritus on; 'Casualties sustained by the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914-1918' The lecture is preceded by both a short introduction given by Miles Stephenson the Director of Alumni and Donor Relations for the university and a short history of the 3rd West Riding Field Ambulance given by Derek Cullen.