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Clinical Photographs Reconstructive Surgery, India Album and prints entitled,"Harry W.Williams F.R.C.S.Ed. F.I.C.S. CLINICAL PHOTOGRAPHS, Depts. of Reconstructive Surgery of the Emery Hospital, Anand, Gujerat & Catherine Booth Hospital Nagercoil. India." (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and Fellow of the International College of Surgeons). Album (345x230mm) with hand written title page, over 100 small, silver gelatin snapshots showing various bodily, mainly facial anomalies. Some before and after surgery photographs, many annotated. Cleft lip reconstruction, loss of upper lip, rhinoplasty, advanced rodent ulcer, photographs of proceedures and results. Also a group of 14 silver prints of patients possibly used for exhibiting. The photographs are very much snapshots, rather than professionally produced. Harry William George Williams (1913-2016) was originally a soldier and bandsman at Salvation Army, Wood Green Corps, North London. He studied medicine, but interrupted his studies to become an officer. After his commissioning in the Salvation Army in 1935, he completed his medical studies. He married Lieutenant Eileen Neeve in November 1939 and in December of that year, they set sail for India.There they served in 4 of the Salvation Army's major hospitals for the next 30 years, The Thomas Emery at Moradabad, the McRobert at Dhariwal, The Emery at Anand and the Catherine Booth at Nagercoil. Dr. Harry Williams was an acknowledged authority in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery, in which he did much early exploration work. A Member of the British Medical Association of Plastic Surgery and, in 1970, appointed an OBE, by the Queen in recognition of his specialist work in reconstructive surgery, particularly in cases of leprosy. He returned to London in 1974, where he was made International Secretary for the Americas, visiting Bolivia and creating a Salvation Army hospital at Cochabamba, which was named, "Harry Williams Hospital". In 2005, Dr.Williams received the highest recognition in the Salvation Army, The Order of the Founder. He died in 2016, at his home in Melrose, Scotland aged 103 years, where in his later life, he turned to painting, as he said, "I was always an artist". Album cover worn and stained. Photographs are clean and clear.