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12-10-2007, 12:49 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Archibald McIndoe - plastic surgery pioneer http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1636755.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4264234.stm http://www.mishalov.com/Page.html - the most well-known of the Guinea Pigs who survived the war? And Page's book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shot-Down-Fl.../dp/1902304101 Richard Hillary's book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Enemy-R.../dp/071267344X http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documen...inea-pig.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Pig_Club Unfortunately, the official site, http://www.gpigs.co.uk/ , appears to have disappeared. A simple video using the stirring music from Memphis Belle (you'll know it when you hear it, it's probably got a real name!). I really should not watch such things as I come within inches of being a blubbering mess. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYBjp9MNayc http://www.surgical-tutor.org.uk/def...ndoe.htm~right I wonder if any plastic surgeons practicing today know of AM or could pioneer what he did?
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12-10-2007, 03:11 PM
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The Australians had a great innovative plastic surgeon in North Africa who pioneered some wonderful new methods. I can't think of his name at the moment however he worked on my father and brought him back to normal from a mess. Will try and remember to ask mum tomorrow when I go there for lunch.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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12-10-2007, 07:08 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | A I understand it McIndoe is an entire chapter or 3 in all plastic surgery books for new surgeons under training. Wonderful man and wonderful men his Guinea Pigs.
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13-10-2007, 01:11 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | That is really good to know, Kitty.
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13-10-2007, 07:54 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | There was a civilian club set up just after the war that ran alongside the Guinea Pigs under McIndoe but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. Lots of children were in it whop had suffered injuries due to bombs and whatnot. Quite a few were adopted by the aircrew as Honorary Guinea Pigs.
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13-10-2007, 10:13 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | There is also the book McIndoe's Army, which has the story of the Surgeon and some individual stories about the survivors, including Geoffery Page, who became famous after his cameo role the film, Battle of Britian.
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14-10-2007, 04:40 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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14-10-2007, 08:28 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | I remembered the Australian plastic surgeon. Sir Benjamin Rank. I have put him on another thread.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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