Head of a Soldier

Henry Tonks 1862 - 1937

Summary

The head and shoulders of a man. The subject is looking to the left and has short dark hair with a parting to his left. He also has a dark moustache and blue eyes. He is wearing a high necked shirt and striped braces. There is no background detail. Henry Tonks was both a surgeon and a teacher at the Slade School of Art prior to World War I. He was a civilian doctor in France and Italy during the early war years. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1916 and worked in Sidcup with Sir Harold Gillies, a pioneer of plastic surgery.