INJURED AIRMAN
', 'TREATMENT IN ENGLAND
" Since' his arrival in England recently Flying Officer L. F. P: Taylor";'of 'Wellington, lias undergone1 the first' of ; a series of eight or ten plastic operations ■fo his face. ' ' : ' ' ;
' Flying Officer Taylor,' a member of the1 New' Zealand Territorial Air r Force and th,« Wellington Aero Club, was very badly burned in September, 1932, when an aeroplane- in which he and Mr. A. li..de Tburet.tes were travelling, crashed at: Johnsonyille. After many months in hdspital Flying Officer 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 Flying Officer Taylor before he left the Dominion, his face was still scarred, and his eyelids were half closed. The.surgeon has since opened the lids of his eyes and found that his sight is quite good. Various operations will be Iperformed during the next six months,, and it is anticipated that. Flying Officer Taylor will have his features entirely, restored. \ .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 12
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193INJURED AIRMAN Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 12
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