Lt. Col. Richard John Vulliamy Marfleet Battle MBE, FRCS, LRCP, MCh Cantab, MA Cantab, BA Cantab, 1970 Gillies Gold Medal. (21 January 1907 – 26 May 1982) was an English plastic surgeon, President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons.
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The son of William Henry Battle and Anna Marguerite (née Vulliamy), Battle was educated at Gresham's School, Norfolk, and Trinity College, Cambridge. His family Marfleet Vulliamy Battle were notable Sussex and Lincolnshire landowners.
Following service as a military plastic surgeon during the Second World War for which he was awarded the MBE, Battle was appointed as Consultant Plastic Surgeon to St Thomas Hospital, London, the Westminster Hospital, London, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital(Hackney), London, which he served until his retirement from the NHS in 1972. He also had a small private practice in London. He was Honorary Consultant in Plastic Surgery to the British Army from 1955 to 1971 and President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1952 and again from 1967.
Before 1939, he was a member of the Territorial Army and served the War of 1939-1945 in the RAMC. France, 1939–40, Italy, 1943-46. Commanded No. 1 Maxillo Facial Unit and 98 General Hospital. Promoted Major, 1940, and Lieutenant-Colonel, 1945.
Marfleet Vulliamy Battle, Richard's family, were notable Sussex and Lincolnshire landowners. Battle's grandfather was the Mayor of Lincoln. In 1941, Battle married Jessie Margaret King, and they had three sons.