The above pictures are patients of surgeon Harold Gillies during WWI and WWII. Gillies became inspired by watching other surgeons experiment with skin graph techniques. Gillies and his colleagues opened and worked in a hospital called The Queens Hospital where they would work with facial repairs. It opened in June of 1917 with units that provided over 1,000 beds. During his time there he developed many techniques of plastic surgery, it is said he and colleagues did more than 11,00 operations and these were performed on over 5,000 men who were mostly soldiers with facial injuries. For his war services and helping broken soldiers Gillies was knighted in the Birthday Honours list of June 1930. Interestingly, in 1946, he and a colleague carried the first sex reassignment surgery; female to male. And later in1951 he and colleagues carried out one of first modern sex reassignment surgery from male to female where a flap technique was used and became the standard for the next 40 years. In a time where many couldn’t believe plastic surgery was even possible, Gillies proved otherwise and helped those who came to him and helped shaped plastic surgery where it would advance further over the years to come.
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