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‘Philip was one of the boys’: Meet the survivors of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Guinea Pig Club
Offering pioneering plastic surgery to pilots who received life-changing injuries in the war, it s the ‘most exclusive club in the world’
15 April 2021 • 5:00am
The Duke of Edinburgh was the club s president from 1960 to 2017
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There have only ever been two presidents of the Guinea Pig Club, and Bob Marchant has been privileged enough to meet them both. The first was in 1956 when, after leaving the RAF, he took up a position at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead where Sir Archibald McIndoe was treating pilots who had suffered life-changing injuries in the war. ....

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