Professor George Grey Turner at desk with fellow surgeons, from album "Visit to America, 1918". World War One surgeons (including George Grey Turner, far left): an international gathering in Washington D.C.: group portrait. Photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1918. Photo on Wellcome site includes a few names written underneath [1] including Raffaele Bastianelli and Myles. This photo appears in the Evening Star (Washington) on 23 October 1918 and has the following caption:
ALLIED SURGEONS VISITING WASHINGTON
Noted surgeons from Great Britain, France and Italy are making a tour of cities in the United States in the interest of allied surgery during the war. In the group, seated, are from left to right:

• Lieut. Col. George E. Brewer, U.S.A., who has been operating at the front;
• Sir Thomas Myles of Dublin, surgeon to the king in Ireland;
• Dr. Franklin Martin, chairman general medical board, United States Council of National Defense;
• prof. Raffaelle Bastianelli, one of the best known surgeons in Rome, and
• Maj. Pierre Duval of Paris.

Standing-

• Major George Grey Turner of England, a veteran surgeon in the Mesopotamia campaign;
• Dr. Joseph A. Pettit of Portland, Oreg.;
• Lieut. Georges Loewy, an instructor in the Rockefeller Institute, New York;
• Col. George E. [Gask - in the caption, this line duplicates and does not list the last name]
• [missing text - likely Antoine] Beclere, a noted Paris X-ray expert;
• Dr. Frank F. Simpson, chief of medical section, Council of National Defense;
• Dr. John G. Bowman; director American College of Surgeons;
• Col. Charles U. Dercle, French representative in the U.S. surgeon general's office, and
• Maj. Adrien Piollet of Andre, France.
  

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