Comete War Dead Photographs

Robert AYLE
Shot Mont-Valerien Paris 28/3/1944

Commandant Gaston BIDOUL
Shot Tir National 20/10/1943
Germaine BAJPAI
According to 'Jean-Jacque' (Albert Mattens) the leader of Comete guides: " ... Hautfoin" had the beauty of the devil". She ran with an 'elevated' social circle of friends and had connections with an aristocratic group of Gaulists. She was 52 years old, looked like she was in her 30s ... and all airmen who came in contact with her were struck by her stunning good looks and character. She had been married 4 times - once to an Aussy Sailor (a sea capt I think), and lastly to Mr Sarda Bajpai, the brother of the Indian Ambasador to the USA ... She was one of the three heads of the safe-house system created by 'Jerome' in Paris, ca Aug '43. She organized safe-houses, saw to their welfare, and guided airmen to and from in the city. She had helped 'officially' 63 Allied airmen by the time she was arrested on 18/01/44. (Though I think I have the number up to 75). Deported to Ravensbruck, she died there of maltreatment, on 4 Feb, 1945.
Michael LeBlanc 16/10/2001

Lucienne Marie Henri Alfons COLLIN
Born Hasselt 17/12/1909
Shot at Poppenweiler, Ludwigsburg 30th June 1944

photo Martin Warburton

Marcel DAELEMANS
Died at Neuengamme Concentration Camp 17/12/1944
   
Frederic De Jongh       Plaque at the Frederec De Jongh School Schaerbeek
(Paul)
Shot Mont-Valerien Paris 28/3/1944

Marceline DELOGE
Disappeared Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp c.1944

Baron Jacques DONNY
Shot Stuttgart 29/2/1944

Florence DUCHENE
Died Bergen-Belsen April 1945.

Eugene DUMON
Disappeared Gross-Rosens Concentration Camp c.1945
  
Comte Antoine D'URSEL
(Jacques CARTIER)
Drowned crossing the River Bidassoa 24/12/1943

Georges GUILLON
Died Mauthausen Concentration Camp 22/4/1945

Baron Jean GREINDL (Nemo)
Killed in bombing of Etterbeek Barracks 7/9/1943

Jean INGELS
aka Jean de Gand
Shot Tir National 20/10/1943

Robert ROBERT JONES
Shot Tir National 20/10/1943

Albert Marchal
Shot Tir National 20/10/1943

Georges MARECHAL
Shot Tir National 20/10/1943

Eric de MENTEN de HORNES
Shot at Tir National 20/10/1943

Victor MICHAELS
(Louis)
Killed on a Brussels Street 19/11/1942

Jean MOBERS
Shot at Poppenweiler 19/4/1943

Gertrude MOORS
Died at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp 5/5/1945
Gertrude MOORS was party to helping a F/Lt Leonard PIPKIN RAF (COMET No. 63)escape in 1942. Born in Dilsen in 1902. She was arrested in 1943 having been an active person within the SIS and MARC and LUC which were intelligence gathering units reporting back to the Secret Intelligence Service. She gave direct and personal assistance to Pipkin prior to her arrest. I am told she was also an operational chief with L 100 Group ? The date of her detention was in fact the 18 June 1943 then being tortured in St Gilles Prison condemned to death on the 2 July 1944.
Colin Pateman.28/10/2000

Charlie MORELLE
Died at Dachau Concentration Camp 18/5/1945

Ghislain NEYBERGH
Shot Tir National 20/10/1943

Andre RAFFALOVICH
Died at Dora Mittelbau

William REYNOLDS

Lambert SPANOGHE
Shot at Poppenweiler 30/6/1944

Francois STRENS
Disappeared from Sonnenburg Prison c.1944. His sister Clara Marie Strens who had been imprisoned, died shortly after her return to Belgium.

Francoise USANDIZAGA
Born 29/8/1908 in Vere di Bidassoa.Died at Neubrandenburk/Meckl. 12/4/1945

Ernest VAN MOORLEGHEM
Shot at Bayreuth 19/11/1944

Valentin YARMONKIME
Died at Dora Mittelbau



Escape Lines Memorial Society wreath in the River Bidassoa in memory of Comte Antoine D'URSEL - September 2004


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