He was given his first dose of the drug on 25 August, a day after he was airlifted back to Britain by a specially equipped C17 RAF jet.
That meant many were airlifted back to this country with such severe injuries they needed the most sophisticated medical and rehabilitative care the country had to offer.
In March 1944, Didi Nearne followed her sister in parachuting into France, remaining there, under the code name Agent Rose, after her sister was airlifted back to Britain.
After catching Ebola in August while volunteering in another Sierra Leone hospital, Pooley was airlifted back to Britain and treated by some of the world's top infectious disease experts.
Anne, then engaged on a novel that suggested that Dionysus had been worshiped in Salonika in archaic times, broke her hip in an accident there and was airlifted back to Britain; yet we visited the city twice more and would love to return.
During a studio presentation behind closed doors at the E3 conference this week, one developer demonstrated how even the local wildlife can be airlifted back to base: a tottering sheep was yanked into the sky with a yelp and a shower of fluff.
Lyall makes plain not just the passion of British animal lovers, but their organizational zeal: Scottish Natural Heritage, the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, Uist Hedgehog Rescue and the Uist Wader Project fought for years before agreeing the alien hedgehogs should be airlifted back to the mainland rather than killed.
Pte Hunt, 21, from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, died at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, two days after being airlifted back to the UK.
An unnamed princess is airlifted from "definitely not Copenhagen".
