Guinea Pig Club Today
The club regularly meets sixty years later and still offers help to burns patients. Annual meetings at East Grinstead attract visitors from all over the world. By 2003, there were around two hundred survivors. One of the local pubs adopted the name The Guinea Pig, but this was closed in 2008 and subsequently demolished in spring 2009 to make way for social housing, which development bears the name, Guinea Pig Place. Sixteen members of the club have also written books about their experiences, some of them during the war. Sir Archibald MacIndoe was elected life president at the foundation of the club. Since the death of MacIndoe in 1960, the president of the club is Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Geoffrey Page was the first chairman.
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