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Looking back over the years, the reunion weekend there many tributes have been paid is a stained-glass window to honour the members of incorporating the guinea this unique club, not only by pig logo, a memorial tablet the people of East Grinstead, dedicated to Henry Standen but by the town itself. & his fellow guinea pigs. And Reflecting on just a few, we find places such as the Queen in the small chapel, to the left of the main alter, a chair in Victoria Hospital, who, in the memory of chief guinea pig year 2000 commissioned a Grp/Capt Tom Gleave. local sign writer to design a The local council have also roll of honour naming the 649 been very supportive by members, which now hangs naming streets, roads & proudly on the wall within the buildings in East Grinstead Canadian wing, as well as by in their honour, especially naming their main beverage on the estate opposite the & food outlets as The Spitfire hospital in Holtye Road. By Restaurant, The Hurricane and generously hosting, from The Lancaster Lounges. time to time, special events St Swithun’s church, the & reunions at the council building where some of the offices. And becoming the members were married, and custodians of the statue to for many years the annual Sir Archibald McIndoe which service was held during was unveiled in June 2014, standing outside Sackville College at the entrance to the town, on what is now known as the McIndoe Lawn.

The town museum itself, who in 2015 established an exhibition named Rebuilding Bodies & Souls, which showed the story of both McIndoe and the club, and since becoming the club’s own museum, holding many records and artefacts for the future generations. Over the years, many social events and visits were arranged and hosted by organizations, private firms or individuals, which were always gratefully appreciated by all who attended, together with the RAFBF who helped with the welfare of the members in need.

Now sadly, as the years pass by and the numbers of the members get fewer, the club will still be remembered, not only by the statue of Sir Archibald in East Grinstead, the memorial stone in the National Arboretum in Staffordshire, the town’s own museum, but by the many places which have been named in their honour, also the people themselves of East Grinstead, within the town they regard as “theirs”. R Marchant FCODP Secretary of the Guinea Pig Club A Trustee of EG Museum

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