- Contributed by听
- St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives & Museum
- People in story:听
- Archibald McIndoe
- Location of story:听
- St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A7884615
- Contributed on:听
- 19 December 2005
Sir Archibald McIndoe was born in New Zealand, trained in plastic surgery under his cousin Sir Harold Gillies at St Bartholomew鈥檚 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 (鈥淢cIndoe鈥檚 guinea-pigs鈥), 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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