Herbert Crowther Foxton was born in Kells, Co Kilkenny in 1890. His parents were both from Wexford. His father Henry worked as a gardener and later as a land st.
<p>As one battlefield nurse wrote home, “the science of healing stood baffled before the science of destroying.”<strong> </strong>Dr. Harold Gillies let the effort to catch up, arguably the only lasting "victory" of the Great War. </p>