First person to undergo plastic surgery

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Originally Posted by Antipodean Andy

Excellent reading guys.

There are several hits on Google for the Guinea Pig Club, but here's one - now there is an exceptional man !

::Archibald McIndoe and the Guinea Pig Club::

This bit is for K !!

McIndoe also go the local community of East Grinstead involved. Because of their disfigurement and the intensity of their operations, the recovering pilots could not mix in the community. Despite the injured pilots heroism, there was a general feeling that the public would not have been able to handle their physical appearance in normal day-to-day circumstances. Two good friends of McIndoe - Neville and Elaine Blond - assisted in developing more community help and support for the pilots so that they did not feel ostracised from the very people they had been helping to protect as fighter pilots. The Blond's persuaded some families in East Grinstead to accept into their homes as guests the recovering pilots at the hospital. Gradually more and more families agreed to help thus bringing the pilots more and more into the town's community.