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Amazing to think what they managed to achieve without modern antibiotics and rejection drugs
 
I thought it was quite interesting that he trained his cousin Archibald McIndoe who did so much for WW2 aircrew suffering from burns who later called themselves the Guinea Pig Club.
 
Absolutely fantastic! Incredibly interesting and again goes to show how much we in modern life owe to both the pioneering surgeons AND the patients.
 
Fantastic job given the limited resources of the day.

There is the old cliche of learning lessons from history. The realisation that having a dedicated military hospital for the treatment of the injured is a good thing. Well they obviously came to that conclusion in WW1 something the bean counters of today seem to have forgotten.
 
Fascinating stuff, and horific at the same time. I can imagine it will be a great exibition.
 
wolfy said:
I thought it was quite interesting that he trained his cousin Archibald McIndoe who did so much for WW2 aircrew suffering from burns who later called themselves the Guinea Pig Club.
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read a really good book about one of the guinea pig club- a guy call hoppy hodgekinson. he had both legs amputated but sill went on to fly spits. McIndoe fixed his face and gave him the courgage to carry on. Good read, and i found it on a frame!!!
 
If you can remember the Battle of Britain film there is a true Guinea Pig member in that.
 
shoutingwind said:
read a really good book about one of the guinea pig club- a guy call hoppy hodgekinson. he had both legs amputated but sill went on to fly spits. McIndoe fixed his face and gave him the courgage to carry on. Good read, and i found it on a frame!!!
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Based at Coltishall (or one of its satellites) in 1943 if memory serves, cannot remember which unit he was with though.
 
wolfy said:
If you can remember the Battle of Britain film there is a true Guinea Pig member in that.
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Plays one of the controllers, when the air defence system is explained (he is at the back), He is also is later in the film explaining to Sarah York that he hasn't see the character played by Christopher Plummer since his ‘escapade with a burning Hurricane’.
 
MAINJAFAD said:
Plays one of the controllers, when the air defence system is explained (he is at the back), He is also is later in the film explaining to Sarah York that he hasn't see the character played by Christopher Plummer since his ‘escapade with a burning Hurricane’.
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Thats the man, thanks MAINJAFD.
 
wolfy said:
Thats the man, thanks MAINJAFD.
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Guy who played the burnt controller (Sqn Ldr Tom Evans) was W.G. Foxley, a Bomber Command Navigator, who was badly burnt while trying to save a comrade from the burning wreckage of their aircraft after it crashed in 1944. He lost some of his fingers, his right eye and he underwent 40 operations to get him to the state you see on film. (I’ll look up on the details, next time I’m home from my copy of ‘Bomber Command Losses – 1944’)
 
One of the hospitals used by the Guinea Pig Surgeons is still used by the military today. It is now the Roehampton Priory Hospital, although solely for psychiatric cases there is a plaque and dedications to all in the foyer.

Quite a pioneering group of people without whom plastic surgery today would probably still be in it's infancy.

Again the advances of mankind brought on by War.
 
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