Photos of a wounded WWI soldier, the first to undergo modern plastic surgery, have been released.

Walter sustained terrible facial injuries including the loss of upper and lower eyelids while manning the guns aboard HMS Warspite in 1916.

In 1917 he was treated by Sir Harold Gillies – the first man to use skin grafts from undamaged areas on the body – and know as ‘the father of plastic surgery’.

London-based Gillies opened a specialist ward for the treatment of the facially-wounded at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, Kent.

Walter Yeo is thought to be the first patient to benefit from his newly-developed technique – a form of skin grafting called ‘tubed pedical’.

The young sailor, of Plymouth, Devon, was given new eyelids with a ‘mask’ of skin grafted across his face and eyes.

The skull of an American soldier who died on a British prison ship will be reburied after undergoing forensic study.

A 1907 catalog of the New Haven County Historical Society listed several rare and odd items, including a necklace from an Egyptian mummy, slave chains, a small block of wood from the Old South Bridge in Concord, Mass., which the British guarded at the start of the Revolutionary War.

But lot 23 in the inventory — “a skull of an American soldier, one of 42 who died of the 200 in a destitute and sickly condition that were brought from a British prison ship … and suddenly cast upon the shore of the town of Milford on the 1st of January, 1777″ — has sparked contemporary patriots to ride to the rescue.

City leaders and historians in Franklin, Tennessee, are deciding what to do with the remains of a Union soldier discovered at the future site of a fast-food restaurant.

That land, the scene of some of the fiercest fighting on Nov. 30, 1864, is where a Pizza Hut restaurant stood until city leaders bought the land and tore the restaurant down with fanfare a few years ago.

Meantime, no other bones have been reported unearthed. The city has not required Wolfe to conduct an archaeological survey of the site.

Archaeologist Larry McKee, who examined the remains, said he believes more soldiers’ graves are still out there to be discovered. “Within a quarter-mile radius, I bet there’s more,” McKee said.