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Broken gargoyles: the disfigured soldiers of the first world war This is the face of man after taking artilley shrapnel to his head. It all grew back but he is forever marked from that war long ago. The world will move on and it always will, but some are so unfortunate to be living reminders. ⠀ Tens of thousands of badly wounded Australian veterans stoically participated in the earliest Anzac Day parades after the end of the first world war. Look at the old photographs and you’ll see many of the 155,000 service men who were wounded on the various fronts, being pushed in wheelchairs by fellow veterans, or hobbling along with the aid of prosthetic limbs, crutches and walking sticks. There are the many blind men too, tap-tap-tapping their way along the main streets of the towns and cities with their white canes, clinging to the elbows of comrades. Study those sepia images carefully today and you might see them off to the side – ghostly figures with faces shadowed under broad-rimmed hats o