Man's sight restored 66 years on

A man who was blinded in one eye during the Blitz has had his sight restored by Scottish specialists, 66 years later.

John Gray, 87, was badly injured during the Luftwaffe's bombing raid on Clydeside and was told he would never again see through his right eye.

However, when he started to go blind in his left eye too, specialists decided to see if there was anything they could do about the wartime wound.



An eye surgeon at Glasgow's Southern General replaced the scarred lens. The Southern General Hospital's eye surgeon Dr Ian Bryce removed John's scar tissue and inserted a new artificial lens - something not possible 60 years ago.

Mr Gray can now see through the eye he has not used in six decades and is sufficiently sighted to sit a driving test.

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