History: Brave Walter Yeo sustained horrifying facial injuries including the loss of upper and lower eyelids on 31 May 1916, during the Battle of Jutland, while manning battleship guns during the Great War. He was treated by Sir Harold Gillies, the first man to transfer skin from undamaged areas. (590x350)

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