In 1961 Council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons instituted an appeal to establish a memorial to Sir Harold Gillies. Lecturers are at the invitation of Council of the Association.

Gillies Lecturers and Gold Medallists

1961 
T Pomfret Kilner “The Birth of a Specialty”
1962 
Rainsford Mowlem “Bone Grafting”
1963 
F Burian “The Past and Present of Plastic Surgery: Its Problems in Future Society”
1964 
A Ragnell “The Development of Plastic Surgery in Stockholm in the Last Decennium”
1965 
Sir Ivan Magill “Plastic and the Anaesthetist”
1967 
G M FitzGibbon “The Commandments of Gillies”
1969 
R V J Battle “Great Opportunities in Plastic Surgery”
1971 
R Millard “Jousting with the First Knight of Plastic Surgery”
1973 
Sir Benjamin Rank “Tides and Eddies of Plastic Surgery”
1975 
H Schjelderup “Plastic Surgery from Basingstoke to Norway”
1977 
D N Matthews “Gillies – Mastermind of Modern Plastic Surgery”
1979
T Gibson “Tissue Transplantation Before, During and After the Life of Sir Harold Gillies”
1981 
D A Campbell Reid “The Emergence of Hand Surgery in the United Kingdom”
1983 
N H Antia “Organisation of Plastic Surgery in Developing Countries”
1985
N C Hughes “The Legacy of the Giants”
1987 
M N Tempest “Editing and Audition: a Crisis in Communication”
1989 
A F Wallace “From Moses to Mahon”
1991 
I A McGregor “The Pursuit of Function and Cosmesis in Managing Oral Cancer: 1995-1991”
1993 
P Tesseir “From Plastic Surgery to Craniofacial Surgery”
1995 
I T Jackson “Plastic Surgery Contributions to Skull Base Surgery”
1997 
F V Nicolle “Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the Future Plastic Surgeon”
1999 
R W Piggott “Speak Ye, Comfortably”
2001 
G I Taylor “Keeping a Head”
2003 
P Randall “Robert H Ivy, An Extraordinary English Gentleman”
2005
T J S Patterson "Gillies - The Teacher and his Tube Pedicle"
2007
A Bamji and B D Morgan "The Man Behind the Myth"