http://www.east-grinstead.co.uk/places/queen-victoria-hospital/ Ashurst Wood | Lingfield | Forest Row | Crawley Down Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:26:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.east-grinstead.co.uk/places/queen-victoria-hospital/comment-page-1/#comment-2 East Grinstead » Sir Archibald McIndoe Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:38:31 +0000 http://www.east-grinstead.co.uk/general/queen-victoria-hospital/#comment-2 [...] When World War II broke out plastic surgery was largely divided on service lines. Gillies went to Rooksdown House near Basingstoke, which became the principal army plastic surgery unit; Tommy Kilner (who had worked with Gillies during the First World War) went to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton and Mowlem to St Albans. McIndoe moved to the recently rebuilt Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex, and founded a Centre for Plastic and Jaw Surgery. There, he treated very deep burns and serious facial disfigurement like loss of eyelids. Patients at the hospital formed the Guinea Pig Club. One of the better known members of his “club” was Richard Hillary. [...] [...] When World War II broke out plastic surgery was largely divided on service lines. Gillies went to Rooksdown House near Basingstoke, which became the principal army plastic surgery unit; Tommy Kilner (who had worked with Gillies during the First World War) went to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton and Mowlem to St Albans. McIndoe moved to the recently rebuilt Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex, and founded a Centre for Plastic and Jaw Surgery. There, he treated very deep burns and serious facial disfigurement like loss of eyelids. Patients at the hospital formed the Guinea Pig Club. One of the better known members of his “club” was Richard Hillary. [...]

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