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Search for family of the first ever plastic surgery patient: World War One sailor received first ever skin graft after suffering horrific injuries at the Battle of Jutland

"When Walter Yeo was horrifically wounded during World War One, he became the first person in history to undergo modern plastic surgery. These century-old photographs show before, during and after pictures of the groundbreaking medical procedure carried out on the disfigured sailor nearly 100 years ago, Mr Yeo sustained terrible facial injuries including the loss of upper and lower eyelids while manning the guns aboard HMS Warspite in 1916."

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