BAUS at war.

Abstract

It is 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War (1914–1918), at the time BAUS did not exist and neither did the Urology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM). Indeed, although recognised on the Continent and in America, Urology in Great Britain was not yet a specialty; British Surgeons were General Surgeons. However, there were surgeons who were experts in the field of genitourinary surgery and there were other men who, in the future, would create British Urology and BAUS. In 1914, these men, like many others were called to war.