PLASTIC SURGERY
FLYING OFFICER'S INJURIES. HOPE FOR RESTORATION. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, Jan. 28. Since his arrival in England recently, Flying-Officer L. F. P. Taylor, of Wellington, has undergone the first of a series of eight or ten plastic operations to the face. Taylor, a member of the New Zealand Territorial Air Force and the Wellington Aero Club, was very badly burned in September, 1932, when an aeroplane in which he and A. L. De Tourettes were travelling crashed on a house at Johnsonville, when the plane was forced low by fog. After many months in hospital, Taylor was able to return to his home, and towards the end of last year he left for England to become a patient of one of the most eminent specialists in plastic surgery in the world, Sir Harold Gillies, of London who is himself a New Zealander.
Although new skin was grafted on to Taylor before he left the Dominion, his face was still scarred and his eyelido were half-closed. The surgeon has since opened the lids of the eyes and found that he sight quite good. Various operations will be performed during the next six months, and it is anticipated that Taylor will have his features entirely restored. ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 92, 29 January 1934, Page 8
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