Archibald McIndoe
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Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe was a New Zealand plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He improved the treatment and rehabilitation of badly burned aircrew.
McIndoe operating at East Grinstead: a painting by Anna Zinkeisen, 1944
Blue plaque on McIndoe's former home at Avenue Court, 23–29 Draycott Avenue, Chelsea, London
Monument to McIndoe in East Grinstead, by Martin Jennings
Harold Gillies
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Sir Harold Delf Gillies was a New Zealand otolaryngologist and father of modern plastic surgery.
Gillies caricatured in Punch's Personalities by George Belcher, 1929
Walter Yeo, a sailor injured at the Battle of Jutland, is assumed to be the first person to receive plastic surgery in 1917. The photograph shows him before (left) and after (right) receiving a flap surgery performed by Gillies.
Frognal House, formerly Queen Mary's Hospital, in 2002