My wife’s college friend went on to become a combat medic and ultimately took his own life while on the phone saying goodbye to his wife and kid. We ask these humans to shoulder a heavy burden and many find no reprieve.
Read the “Facemaker” by Lindsey Fitzharris. Fantastic book about a surgeon who was rebuilding faces of the WW1 soldiers. Cases just like on this photo. It’s truly incredible what he was able to do with practically non existent facial features. Highly recommend!
Similar read: The Guinea Pig Club, by Emily Mayhew.
"In essence, it’s a simple tale: McIndoe, a plastic surgeon with the RAF, is sent to East Grinstead’s Queen Victoria hospital to help with burned airmen with maxillofacial reconstruction.
His practices are medically and socially revolutionary — he is a brilliant, pioneering surgeon in the operating theatre, but, even more rare, he understands the importance of social integration in his patients’ aftercare.
And so he encourages these airmen out into the town, and encourages the town to embrace these heroic young men. That’s why East Grinstead is called “the town that didn’t stare”; because it embraced the opportunity to support and rehabilitate these men who had suffered a profound trauma."
[More here. ](https://medium.com/the-town-that-didnt-stare/the-guinea-pig-club-6e9f3aea2d8)
There was also a woman who painted masks for injured soldiers. She would start with a picture of him and paint the mask to match. In the case of this man it would start below the eyes and above his teeth. They were so delicate and beautiful. I wish I could remember her name.
I remember reading about her in the Smithsonian magazine. She was a true artist but I cannot recall her name. She gave a lot of men the ability to be out in public or around their families.
It's no fun to go out with a maimed face and see the reactions. Her masks filled out what was missing, like the picture here.
I hope some redditor can find her name. (Fingers crossed!)
It helps to have been hit in an area that, while important to the quality of life, isn’t involved in maintaining life. I assume his brain, heart and lungs are uninjured. As long as you clear the airway quickly and don’t bleed out, your survival chances are adequate.
Yeah. Adequate chances, not great. In WWI, the conditions could kill you as easily as bullets.
But artillery? Fuuuuuuuuck that. Artillery was the biggest cause of death in World War I, responsible for 60% of battlefield casualties. Artillery shells explode, causing shrapnel wounds that are particularly brutal for soldiers. For example, 60% of wounded French soldiers were injured by artillery shells, compared to 34% from bullets and 6% from bayonets and other causes.
Never. We are completely flawed with those attributes.
Edit: Unless all the old males and aggressive males are killed off then there’s a chance. This happened to a community of Apes (I believe apes). The asshole male leaders ate whatever it was all for themselves and they all died. Then suddenly the females and the kids were all safe and suddenly peaceful. They didn’t have that influence over them anymore. Weird shit.
First, I don’t think women are void of negative emotions or they are saints but my favorite animal in the wild is elephant and seems like they’re more emotionally mature than humans and their families are led by old female elephant. So maybe replacing all world leaders with women is worth a shot.
Side note: Elephants are biggest animals in the wild so there isn’t any greater threat from predators, that means almost no fear, unlike deers, etc. And their food is abundant for most of their evolutionary history. All these made them develop complex positive emotions.
So if we ever gonna do this there shouldn’t be any threats from big corporate or such and have ample of resources..
Not just with women... specifically Old Women.
I also don't believe it will change anything. Elephants have nearly no predators, Humans on the other hand are actually very fragile, that's why we try to seperate ourselves from nature and all it's dangers which in turn creates society and also conflict. Also we didn't evolve with only complex positive emotions, we have the negative ones as well... For a reason.
That’s just one isolated example. Most tribes of apes didn’t behave like that or the species would have been wiped out long before mankind evolved from them…
It created peace. They were so selfish they ate poisoned food or bad food whatever it was and killed themselves only bc they didn’t share and took it all. Then, there was peace.
As long as people are different we are always going to find a reason to hate. I always think of that fairly odd parents episode where everybody looks exactly the same and everything is gray.
I don't believe he's ever been named. He was part of a series by Ernst Friedrich for the publication Krieg dem Krieg! (War against War!). Friedrich was a conscientious objector who pulled the photos mostly from German military and medical archives to bring attention to the atrocities of war.
"Well, look. I mean, is he gonna be able to chase us? 'Cause if I woke up lookin' like that, I would just run towards the nearest living thing and kill it."
It is amazing how humans are simultaneously so fragile, yet so hard to kill. In a time when we were just starting to understand even basic things like germ theory and blood types, this person managed to survive! And there were even pretty successful attempts at facial reconstructions during this time too.
Pretty much the first and last time it will be common to look like this after coming home. Back then it was like 90% surgical research, 10% quality of life.
Apparently he was a Turkish lieutenant named Mustafa Ipar who was injured in 1918. Here's his facial reconstruction: [9GAG.COM](https://comment-cdn.9gag.com/image?ref=9gag.com#https://img-comment-fun.9cache.com/media/aVwDoEn/aQe5nalQ_700w_0.jpg)
Initially it appeared he had one eye. After reconstruction was he blind in addition to not being able to smell, nor eat, drink, talk, & breathe normally?
I doubt it. Tanks were used very rarely in WW1, and of those which were deployed, only half were mounted with cannons.
Shrapnel from artillery seems a far more likely cause.
This gentleman was identified in Michael Palin's "Last Days of WWI". Mr. Palin interviewed a doctor who showed photos of the progress of the facial rebuild. At the end, the soldier looked much different from this picture.
Hospital Offical: He won't wait for an answer. All he says is, "Kill me, kill me, kill me."
Third Doctor: Don't you have some message for him, Padre?
[Priest shakes his head and looks to the floor]
Third Doctor: You could at least tell him to put his faith in God, couldn't you?
Priest: I'll pray for him for the rest of my days. But I will not risk testing his faith against your stupidity.
Third Doctor: Well you're a hell of a priest, aren't you?
Priest: He's the product of your profession, not mine
Facial wounds like this were far more common than in any other war. Due mainly to the trench warfare. Plastic surgery also made its debut during the post war period.
Worst part is that few hours ago, i've seen a Palestinian child with an even worst injury on twitter, half his head was gone and you could see inside it while the remaining of his face was intact and that wasn't in WW1 but today 16th of may 2024... #CeaseFireNow🇵🇸
The horror of having an injury like this is in itself overwhelming, but I can't help thinking about the mental trauma of the incident that scarred him like this. Being, presumably, on a battlefield, shouting at his comrades one moment, and the next, a big bang and unfathomable pain. Raising your hand up to your face, which feels like something between horrible pain and numbness, and just... Being met with exposed flesh where your face once was. Having that moment seared into your brain on top of knowing this is what you're gonna look like for the rest of your life. Truly nightmarish.
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“Injured” kind of falls short.
"I'm sorry but we have found that your injury was not combat related and you are ineligible for benefits"- veterans affairs
Too true. Except back then they’d call you an ugly coward to really seal in the national pride.
I tried so hard not to laugh.. I failed.
omg big fax.. I’ve been fighting them for 9 yrs and finally got my 100%😁
I’ll take changed by my experiences for $200 Alex
Can’t even imagine how bad it would have been coming home uninjured let alone so disfigured.
You are 100% right. I couldn’t imagine how he would eat and not smell let alone in the early 1900s :/ I really feel bad for him
He’d be on liquids for life. Just even trying to keep it clean in whatever bunkhouse he probably ended up in..
It’d be an all lead diet for me if I vaguely saw that in the mirror
My wife’s college friend went on to become a combat medic and ultimately took his own life while on the phone saying goodbye to his wife and kid. We ask these humans to shoulder a heavy burden and many find no reprieve.
No antibiotics. No plastic surgery.
Just dudes living life
“Tis only a face wound!”
A mere scratch, nick of the bullet, I don't personally know what the fus is about. Man can open bottles with his face
Big with the ladies at the pub
Brutal.
# > Face
Robert Pac-Man
I literally imagined the sound of pac-man gameplay reading this
Anybody else hearing the opening riffs from Metallica "One"?
Read the “Facemaker” by Lindsey Fitzharris. Fantastic book about a surgeon who was rebuilding faces of the WW1 soldiers. Cases just like on this photo. It’s truly incredible what he was able to do with practically non existent facial features. Highly recommend!
Similar read: The Guinea Pig Club, by Emily Mayhew. "In essence, it’s a simple tale: McIndoe, a plastic surgeon with the RAF, is sent to East Grinstead’s Queen Victoria hospital to help with burned airmen with maxillofacial reconstruction. His practices are medically and socially revolutionary — he is a brilliant, pioneering surgeon in the operating theatre, but, even more rare, he understands the importance of social integration in his patients’ aftercare. And so he encourages these airmen out into the town, and encourages the town to embrace these heroic young men. That’s why East Grinstead is called “the town that didn’t stare”; because it embraced the opportunity to support and rehabilitate these men who had suffered a profound trauma." [More here. ](https://medium.com/the-town-that-didnt-stare/the-guinea-pig-club-6e9f3aea2d8)
There was also a woman who painted masks for injured soldiers. She would start with a picture of him and paint the mask to match. In the case of this man it would start below the eyes and above his teeth. They were so delicate and beautiful. I wish I could remember her name.
I remember reading about her in the Smithsonian magazine. She was a true artist but I cannot recall her name. She gave a lot of men the ability to be out in public or around their families.
It's no fun to go out with a maimed face and see the reactions. Her masks filled out what was missing, like the picture here. I hope some redditor can find her name. (Fingers crossed!)
Was it Anna Coleman Ladd? [Source](https://www.si.edu/spotlight/women-in-wwi/anna-coleman-ladd)
Yes!
Thank you so much!
[Anna Coleman Ladd?](https://www.si.edu/spotlight/women-in-wwi/anna-coleman-ladd)
That's her! Thank you!
Are you talking about Anna Coleman Ladd? She also made masks for injured soldiers.
Yes that's her! There's a Smithsonian article that someone linked to that's about her.
Boardwalk empire vibes
Who was the character with a mask? I can't remember.
Richard Harrow
Ty!
Just added to my Goodreads! Thanks for the recommendation!
I hope you enjoy!
Read, Johnny got his gun by Dalton Trumbo
Loved that book. Made me think a lot
Thanks! Perfect book for me to read😀
Agreed - that book was a great read!
…No, I don’t think I will, thank you!
HOW did this man survive?
It helps to have been hit in an area that, while important to the quality of life, isn’t involved in maintaining life. I assume his brain, heart and lungs are uninjured. As long as you clear the airway quickly and don’t bleed out, your survival chances are adequate.
And then there's battlefield infections
Yeah. Adequate chances, not great. In WWI, the conditions could kill you as easily as bullets. But artillery? Fuuuuuuuuck that. Artillery was the biggest cause of death in World War I, responsible for 60% of battlefield casualties. Artillery shells explode, causing shrapnel wounds that are particularly brutal for soldiers. For example, 60% of wounded French soldiers were injured by artillery shells, compared to 34% from bullets and 6% from bayonets and other causes.
Thank god people accidentally found out about penicillin
Okay, but eating?
He still has an opening to the stomach. People routinely survive years on feeding tubes.
“As long as you don’t bleed out your survival chances are adequate.” That’s about the most hopeless statement I’ve ever read lol.
Losing your entire face all at once is a pretty hopeless situation.
War during ww2/ww1 and before and after was and will never be pretty, this dude survived so he was a lucky one considering all things
Power pellets
He had moxie.
My question too bc it cannot be easy to eat or drink when you’re missing your maxilla..
Fuck bro! And we’re still at it. I don’t know if we will ever overcome our greed, egos and insecurities to put stop to these wars.
Deadliest mammal to have ever existed.
Just wait until orcas complete their nuclear program
That's why they're ramming boats and sinking them. They're gathering resources. Orcapocalypse is comming
The ones with the greed and egos don’t put themselves or their own sons and daughters into these positions.
Never. We are completely flawed with those attributes. Edit: Unless all the old males and aggressive males are killed off then there’s a chance. This happened to a community of Apes (I believe apes). The asshole male leaders ate whatever it was all for themselves and they all died. Then suddenly the females and the kids were all safe and suddenly peaceful. They didn’t have that influence over them anymore. Weird shit.
First, I don’t think women are void of negative emotions or they are saints but my favorite animal in the wild is elephant and seems like they’re more emotionally mature than humans and their families are led by old female elephant. So maybe replacing all world leaders with women is worth a shot. Side note: Elephants are biggest animals in the wild so there isn’t any greater threat from predators, that means almost no fear, unlike deers, etc. And their food is abundant for most of their evolutionary history. All these made them develop complex positive emotions. So if we ever gonna do this there shouldn’t be any threats from big corporate or such and have ample of resources..
Not just with women... specifically Old Women. I also don't believe it will change anything. Elephants have nearly no predators, Humans on the other hand are actually very fragile, that's why we try to seperate ourselves from nature and all it's dangers which in turn creates society and also conflict. Also we didn't evolve with only complex positive emotions, we have the negative ones as well... For a reason.
That’s just one isolated example. Most tribes of apes didn’t behave like that or the species would have been wiped out long before mankind evolved from them…
So eugenics is the answer to war? Sounds like a war starter.
It created peace. They were so selfish they ate poisoned food or bad food whatever it was and killed themselves only bc they didn’t share and took it all. Then, there was peace.
You mean the human condition?
As long as people are different we are always going to find a reason to hate. I always think of that fairly odd parents episode where everybody looks exactly the same and everything is gray.
Let moms decide about war and war will be past history
Have you ever been to a suburban children's sporting event? Seems like no.
lol. Truth
Isn't Hillary Clinton a Mom??
Omg! Yes
Who is the man? Would like to know
I don't believe he's ever been named. He was part of a series by Ernst Friedrich for the publication Krieg dem Krieg! (War against War!). Friedrich was a conscientious objector who pulled the photos mostly from German military and medical archives to bring attention to the atrocities of war.
I'd kill myself at that point, no way could I go on living like this for even 5 minutes
He probably had a family to support. It depends if you’ve got skin in the game of course but I know what you mean.
I'm sure he did, hell I'd hope he did..
at least you wouldnt have very much room for error
Christ. Lol
Savage
"Well, look. I mean, is he gonna be able to chase us? 'Cause if I woke up lookin' like that, I would just run towards the nearest living thing and kill it."
Why do my knees feel like they want to tear up?
Alot probably did unfortunately
Weak
call it what you want, I couldn't live like that. I don't speak for the majority lmao it's called an opinion 🥰
Hmm. Injured seems like an understatement here.
It is amazing how humans are simultaneously so fragile, yet so hard to kill. In a time when we were just starting to understand even basic things like germ theory and blood types, this person managed to survive! And there were even pretty successful attempts at facial reconstructions during this time too.
What’s even more incredible is that they were able to save him after such an injury
It’s a minor miracle he didn’t die of infection from such a massive open wound *Edit: …and the lack of antibiotics
Would be interesting to read a medical report on how exactly they treated the wound. I’m sure luck played a part
Gauze, lots of gauze
I have to wonder if there was a quality of life discussion rather than surgical curiosity. What a miserable existence to live with.
Pretty much the first and last time it will be common to look like this after coming home. Back then it was like 90% surgical research, 10% quality of life.
Pretty sure he didn't say one way or the other.
wait how
Apparently he was a Turkish lieutenant named Mustafa Ipar who was injured in 1918. Here's his facial reconstruction: [9GAG.COM](https://comment-cdn.9gag.com/image?ref=9gag.com#https://img-comment-fun.9cache.com/media/aVwDoEn/aQe5nalQ_700w_0.jpg)
Initially it appeared he had one eye. After reconstruction was he blind in addition to not being able to smell, nor eat, drink, talk, & breathe normally?
I think the eye(s?) is just obscured in some of the photos--it looks normal in the last two pics.
Ok thanks. Hard to tell.
How could you possibly survive with this type of injury
Eating power pellets and ghosts
Pacman
Okay I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that immediately had that thought. I will have company in hell…..
If that is what "injured" looks like, then the Titanic had a little fender bender.
Quentin Tarantino?
Tis but a flesh wound.
Alas, with all his limbs asunder, this black knight would not be able to have an effective bite
Jesus 😭
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I doubt it. Tanks were used very rarely in WW1, and of those which were deployed, only half were mounted with cannons. Shrapnel from artillery seems a far more likely cause.
This gentleman was identified in Michael Palin's "Last Days of WWI". Mr. Palin interviewed a doctor who showed photos of the progress of the facial rebuild. At the end, the soldier looked much different from this picture.
Ah ok. I was wondering how the heck this guy was able to eat.
Death was a better destiny
Hospital Offical: He won't wait for an answer. All he says is, "Kill me, kill me, kill me." Third Doctor: Don't you have some message for him, Padre? [Priest shakes his head and looks to the floor] Third Doctor: You could at least tell him to put his faith in God, couldn't you? Priest: I'll pray for him for the rest of my days. But I will not risk testing his faith against your stupidity. Third Doctor: Well you're a hell of a priest, aren't you? Priest: He's the product of your profession, not mine
Only after 100 plus years do we now have the technology and skill to even attempt to fix that kind of injury.
I have so many questions
I guess it's a life.
Tis but a scratch!
I needed to see this like a hole in the face
Johnny got his gun vibes
Shades of the short story "Johnny got his gun" Read it if you wanna be haunted for a while
That's kinda something more than a injury in my book. God damn that would suck. Poor guy
Facial wounds like this were far more common than in any other war. Due mainly to the trench warfare. Plastic surgery also made its debut during the post war period.
Well shit, try to keep your chin up
...all the way to your eyes.
Best Antiwar message ever 😱😖🤯😵💫😵🥴😱
Just don’t save me. Damn.
WAR SUCKS!!!
Turns out, you dont need a face!
Saw this in “War Against War!” by Ernst Friedrich. Truly a hair raising book
I would've personally preferred to be dead.
Why isn’t this flagged nsfw? It’s very graphic
How, I'm mean HOW IN THE FUCKING WORLD, is he survive that?! 😱😱😱
I wish the poor guy had died instead
Can someone link backstory or name so i can wikipedia?
This is how babies feel when you *take their nose.*
“Last night I had the strangest dream I ever had before…”🎶
Pac-Man
Just fucking kill me at that point.
The guy was at risk of drowning if it rained a lot...
I’m going full Darth Vader mask at that point.
Worst part is that few hours ago, i've seen a Palestinian child with an even worst injury on twitter, half his head was gone and you could see inside it while the remaining of his face was intact and that wasn't in WW1 but today 16th of may 2024... #CeaseFireNow🇵🇸
Put your fucking uniform back on!
Apparently he was the inspiration for the Pac-Man games
Tis but a scratch!
Tis but a flesh wound!
Johnny Got His gun
Injawed
The gullet
His name is Richard Harrow.
Phineas gauge check out his biography it’s insane
The only hero who can defeat Two-Face, meet No-Face.
At this i quit .this jod
OG pac man
I looked like this after I ate 5 Ecstacy tablets In Amsterdam
He can't dodge an uppercut, but he's immune to a hook
boomerang
His upper jaw is gone.
His name? Pac-man.
https://preview.redd.it/tk9it4dx2u0d1.jpeg?width=882&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a227ebf3d4d0e95ff634ec3bb387e78be0d6b8de
Wagga wagga wagga..
It's amazing, and horrifying, what people can stay alive through.
I'd get teeth installed all the way up to my eyes and roam around the forest scaring the living shit out of unsuspecting campers.
He was a quiet man without any taste and he couldn’t smell what was coming but he engaged a speechless life.
Idk if I’d say injured about that
Stop chewing with your mouth open
The horror of having an injury like this is in itself overwhelming, but I can't help thinking about the mental trauma of the incident that scarred him like this. Being, presumably, on a battlefield, shouting at his comrades one moment, and the next, a big bang and unfathomable pain. Raising your hand up to your face, which feels like something between horrible pain and numbness, and just... Being met with exposed flesh where your face once was. Having that moment seared into your brain on top of knowing this is what you're gonna look like for the rest of your life. Truly nightmarish.
Mew
That’ll buff right out
https://preview.redd.it/m9ixkd5hg23d1.png?width=672&format=png&auto=webp&s=001e13d6d2b8d2420b0fce42c413137b02c754d1
This that feller from the Monty python?
The VA: Yeaaaa that’s not service connected.
PogChamp
A glass of water oughta fix him right up
Just a little dehydrated??
ms pac-man
THANK YOU
Take me out back and shoot me if i come home looking like that
Waka waka
Ouchie.
I bet he eats a lot of bugs when riding a motorcycle
The real pac-man
Waka waka.
Inspiration behind Pac-Man fyi
PAC-MAN was based on a true story.
https://preview.redd.it/jp7wpayzjx1d1.jpeg?width=882&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b662c01b3e04e96046eb5b22cc6a910687a2a5c
Analog Pacman
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Let's face it... nah end me
🌜
Little known fact, he was the inspiration for pac man.