";s:4:"text";s:3556:" The tubed pedicle flap method was not used for the first time until 1917 when Sir Gillies operated on a sailor who had received horrific burns in the battle of Jutland in October of that yearSergeant Butcher pictured in 1919. [caption id="attachment_142754" align="aligncenter" width="3000"]Gillies assembled a multi-disciplinary team of surgeons, nurses and even artists to assist his patients. At Cambridge his propensity for practical joking became apparent - a trait which was to amuse and upset friends and colleagues throughout his life. As terrible as amputations were, soldiers who lost their faces also lost their identities. All Rights Reserved. The Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot was dismissed as too small a base by the New Zealand-born surgeon. The remains of the tubed pedicle flap can be seen over his bottom lip as the skin from another part of his face was stitched over his woundPotter was photographed in 1916 when his wound has been covered up by the remaining skin around the wound. He also conducted a spirited, if silly correspondence with the Superintendent of the Royal Parks over a harebrained scheme to stock the Serpentine in Hyde Park with salmon, thereby generating an income from licences.Gillies was the first to perform female to male gender reassignment surgery, in 1946. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Its location is northwest of Basingstoke, in the English county of Hampshire. His surgical principles are sensible and have stood the test of time. This rapidly proved inadequate and a new hospital devoted to facial repairs was developed at Between the wars Gillies developed a substantial private practice with Instead of retiring at the end of the Second World War Gillies had to keep working as he had insufficient savings. This surgeon was Harold Delf Gillies; a New Zealander considered by many to be the father of plastic surgery.