Archibald McIndoe, plastic surgeon (1900-1960)

Sir Archibald McIndoe was born in New Zealand, trained in plastic surgery under his cousin Sir Harold Gillies at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and ultimately became plastic surgeon at the Hospital. He was a near-legendary figure during World War Two for his work at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Sussex where the faces and bodies of injured airmen of the Royal Air Force (“McIndoe’s guinea-pigs”), often horrifically burned, were made with a skill and resolve which were to inspire his successor plastic surgeons and their patients alike.

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