In pictures: Faces of Battle (BBC) {some unsettling photos at the link}

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Hidden horror

As Armistice Day approaches an exhibition reveals a hidden side to the horror of World War I.

It contains previously unseen images of British servicemen who suffered terrible facial injuries in the conflict.

The exhibition also tells the story of one surgeon - Harold Gillies – who through his efforts to help them became known as the father of modern plastic surgery.
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And at a time when the care of British soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan is in the headlines, it makes it clear that the issue is not new.

"We remember the dead, but we don't remember the wounded, the people who had to go on living," exhibition co-curator Samantha Doty says.
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WARNING: Some of the following images are of a very graphic nature.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/magazine_faces_of_battle/html/1.stm