SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: This story draws on the service dossier of Gordon Wallace NAA: B2455, WALLACE GORDON JOHN; and his repatriation file NAA: B73, H61609; as well as Gordon Wallace’s file at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. The authors would like to acknowledge Peter Thornton for highlighting Gordon Wallace’s case amongst his work on repatriation files at the National Archives of Australia. For further reading on facial injuries of the Great War see Kerry Neale ‘Without the Faces of Men: Disfigured Great War Veterans of Britain and the Dominions’ (PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, 2015).