Squadron Leader William Geoffrey Foxley (17 August 1923 – 5 December 2010) was a trainee navigator with RAF Bomber Command during World War II who suffered severe burns following a crash.
His Vickers Wellington bomber took off at 23:19 on a training flight, but within a minute the flaps dropped down fully at an altitude of 200 feet (60 Metres) causing the nose to pitch up and the aircraft then stalled and crashed.
Foxley was put under the care of consultant plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead where he underwent 29 operations to his face and hands.
[2] Foxley lived in Devon and then in Surrey where he was near to East Grinstead hospital for further treatment and he worked in facilities management at the Central Electricity Generating Board.
In 1969 he appeared in the film Battle of Britain (1969) as a pilot with facial burns in a scene with Kenneth More and Susannah York.