Harold Gillies was born in Dunedin New Zealand in 1882.

He moved to England to study medicine, seeing the horrors of injured

servicemen coming back from France during the 'Great War', he was a

founder of plastic surgery,specially facial injuries.

Here is a link to some of his work.

WARNING: Before clicking on, some of the images are very graphic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/magazine_faces_of_battle/html/1.stm



The horror of war.