ARTIFICIAL EYELIDS.
(Rec. 1.50 p.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. An Australian airman who, because of injuries to his face, had to sleep without eyelids for 22 months while a prisoner in Germany, has returned home. He is Warrant Officer Rhys Roberts, aged 29. Roberts was shot down over El Alemain in 1942, his plane caught fire and his eyelids were practically burnt off. The famous New Zealand plastic surgeon, Dr. Archibald Macindoe (a native of Dunedin), grafted on hew upper and lower eyelids and remodelled Roberts’s mouth, which was also mutilated in the crash.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 145, 2 April 1945, Page 4
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