The group was composed of over 600 Royal Air Force members who required facial reconstruction, which at the time was experimental. Modern reconstructive surgery owes a huge debt to a group of wounded ...

Jan Stangryciuk died this week at the age of 101, bringing the curtain down on a project that was once 649-strong and was described as the 'most exclusive club in the world' Jan Stangryciuk last year ...

Prince Harry praised a club of "incredibly impressive" World War II veterans who survived severe burns to play a key role in the development of plastic surgery. The Duke of Sussex told the "uplifting" ...

Dr Sandy Saunders had 28 operations to treat his 40% burns to his face, hands and legs in 1945 One of the last surviving members of a group of World War Two pilots who underwent pioneering plastic ...

One of the most exclusive clubs in Great Britain is not full of hereditary peers and socialites, but instead counts former pilots and servicemen as its chief members. It’s called the Guinea Pig Club ...

World War Two veteran Jan Stangryciuk (R) lived to 101 Jan Stangryciuk died on 22 October, aged 101 The "Guinea Pig Club" was a group of World War Two pilots who underwent pioneering plastic surgery ...

With 40 per cent burns the 22-year-old faced a battle for a normal life instead of helping to fight Hitler. Thanks to pioneering plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe, 28 operations over three years ...

Hampshire's fields and villages formed part of the backdrop against which devestatingly burned airmen rested, rehabilitated, and began to rebuild their lives between vital and ground-breaking ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to 'one of the RAF's finest characters' Jack Perry MBE, who has died aged 92. The Harwell man was just 19 when his Halifax Bomber crashed to the ground and left him with 80 per ...

Roger Donaldson will direct the film that follows a maverick surgeon in World War II. By Rebecca Ford Richard E. Grant, Jeremy Irvine and Sam Neill will star in historical action-drama The Guinea Pig ...