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Albert is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada.
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 Nancy Wake
In 1935 she met French industrialist Henri Fiocca, whom she married in 1939.
After the fall of France, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined the escape network of Albert Guerisse[?].
When the network was betrayed in December 1943, she had to escape from Marseilles and leave her husband behind.
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 British SOE agent Albert Guérisse was a prisoner at Natzweiler-Struthof   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
British SOE agent Albert Guérisse was a prisoner at Natzweiler-Struthof
Albert Guérisse, second from the left, taken in 1946
One of the most well-known inmates at Natzweiler-Struthof was Albert Guérisse, a medical doctor and a Communist resistance fighter from Belgium.
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Albert Guérisse: Information from Answers.com Albert Guérisse Albert Guérisse (April 5, 1911 - March 26, 1989) was a Belgian Resistance member who organized escape routes for downed Allied.
British SOE agent Albert Guérisse was a prisoner at Natzweiler One of the most well-known inmates at Natzweiler-Struthof was Albert Guérisse, a medical doctor and a Communist resistance fighter from Belgium.
Click on a name for a new proximity search: Brian Stonehouse: Information from Answers.com After the war, Brian Stonehouse and Albert Guerisse were able to testify at the Nazi war crimes trials as to the women's fate.
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 José Ester Borrás Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During the occupation he participated in the resistance against the Nazis and since its founding in July 1940 he was a member of the group of Francisco Ponzán Vidal.
On 30 April 1941 he was arrested in Toulouse and interned in camp Vernet d'Ariège, where at the request of Francisco Ponzán and thanks to Robert Terres and a few administrative accomplices, he was set free with false documents.
Report concerning the situation of the representatives who were elected in the general elections of 16 February 1936 in the parliament of the Spanish republic.
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 Women British SOE agents allegedly executed at Natzweiler-Struthof
After the Natzweiler prisoners were transferred to Dachau in September 1944, it was Albert Guérisse who first escorted the American liberators to the gas chamber in the Dachau crematorium building.
Among those that she interviewed were Albert Guérisse and Brian Stonehouse, another British SOE agent who was a prisoner at Natzweiler.
By the Summer of 1944, when Brian Stonehouse and Albert Guérisse were transferred to Natzweiler, Hitler's building projects had been put on hold and the quarry was no longer being worked.
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 Andree Borrel Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the ADF came under the control of Marshal Petain, and Andrée Borrel, who was not willing to accept her country's defeat, joined the French Resistance helping British airmen shot down over France to escape through the "underground railway" back to Britain.
With Maurice Dufour, she established a villa in Perpignan near the Spanish border and cooperated with the escape network of Albert Guerisse.
In December of 1941 Borrel's resistance group was uncovered and she fled to Lisbon, Portugal.
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 Wikinfo | Madeleine Damerment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Following the occupation of France by the Germans in World War II, her family became actively involved with the French Resistance.
The unassuming twenty-two-year-old Madeleine worked as an assistant to Michael Trotobas on the escape line set up by Albert Guerisse.
She helped downed British airmen and others to escape France until 1942, when it is believed that one of her fellow resistance workers, Harold Cole, betrayed the group and she had to flee to England.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Madeleine_Damerment   (452 words)

  
 The Story Of Michael Trotobas--Margie Hofman
While Trotobas was in prison at the end of 1941, Madeleine Damerment met Monsieur Paul, who told her he was a British captain and leader of an escape organisation of British Intelligence.
He was in fact, Corporal Harold Cole who worked for the Pat organisation of Dr. Albert Guerisse, but later he became a traitor and betrayed the organisation to the Gestapo.
Trotobas was dropped with a radio operator, Albert Staggs in the Yonne area in November 1942, arriving in Lille with little money, nobody to trust and nowhere to hide.
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 Association: Belgian National Remembrance Committee
Annual ceremonies commemorative of the battle of the Somme (1916) in Albert, Thiepval, Beaumont-Hamel, Fricourt, La Boisselle and Ulster Tower.
A delegation of the Committee lays a wreath at the Memorial to the Fallen of the city of Albert (Somme, France).
On May 6th, a delegation of the Committee was received by the Governor of the Royal Hospital for Former Military Personnel (Koninklijk Tehuis voor Oud-Militairen) in Bronbeek, laid wreaths there at the various war memorials in the Dutch Indies and was shown around the historic Museum of the 300 years long Dutch presence in Indonesia.
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 CHRISTOPHER A LONG - The Royal Air Forces Escaping Society 1994
Having reached Gibraltar, he joined the crew of HMS Fidelity, which was a trawler used by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and which was involved with clandestine sabotage operations.
Albert Johnson was an Englishman living with the de Greef family.
Mme Despres, from the village of Villeboute who was in her eighties and who spoke perfect English, turned her house into a hospital.
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 Damerment, Madeleine - Biography
Born in Lille, France on 11th November 1917 and described as a "brave and gentle girl" Madeleine Damerment was an Ensign in the FANY and designated as a Courier for the Bricklayer network.
She had worked previously in France as the assistant to Michael Trotobas on the PAT escape line, set up by the Belgian army doctor Albert Guérisse, as had Andrée Borrel and Nancy Wake.
Madeleine escaped to England in 1942 when the escape line was betrayed.
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 Brian Stonehouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the summer of 1944 he was transferred to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in Alsace with the PAT Line organizer, Albert Guérisse.
After the war, Brian Stonehouse and Albert Guerisse were able to testify at the Nazi war crimes trials as to the women's fate.
In 1985, Stonehouse painted a poignant watercolour of the four women from memory which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London.
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 Brian Stonehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He spent a brief time in a Luftwaffe factory camp in Vienna.
In the summer of 1944 he was transferred to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in Alsace with the PAT Line organizer, Albert Guerisse.
At the camp he witnessed the arrival of four other female SOE agents, Andrée Borrel, Vera Leigh, Diana Rowden and Sonya Olschanezky who were all executed and disposed of in the crematorium in an attempt to make them disappear without a trace.
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Nancy Wake Albert Guerisse established the PAT escape line in which three of F section's best couriers served their clandestine apprenticeship - Andree Borrel, Brian Stonehouse: Information from Answers.com After the war, Brian Stonehouse and Albert Guerisse were able to testify at the Nazi war crimes trials as to the women's fate.
In 1985, Stonehouse painted a Albert Guerisse (Pat O'Leary) (2 April 1989 - Helen Long added in a letter to The Times) Further to the obituary [in The Times] on Maj-Gen Albert Guérisse (March 29), who ran his escape
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 CHRISTOPHER A LONG - Pat Line, Escape & Evasion in France, World War ll
Albert Guérisse (Pat O'Leary) was the subject on the BBC TV programme This Is Your Life, broadcast on 4 November 1963.
As Garrow stepped onto the set as a surprise guest, Albert Guérisse was seen to mouth the words "I thought you were dead".
Ian Garrow's parents had invited Guérisse to visit them in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1945 (from where he was suddenly called away to identify the corpse of Paul Cole) and somehow contrived to lead Guérisse to believe that their son was dead.
www.christopherlong.co.uk /pri/secpap.html   (6915 words)

  
 Albert Guerisse (Pat O'Leary) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He secured entry into the British Navy and was commissioned as Lieutenant Commander Patrick Albert O'Leary RN, taking the name of a Canadian friend.
He told no-one but the Captain of the Fidelity of his medical background, preferring adventure rather than the duties of an MO.
Sylvia Cooper-Smith and Guerisse after he received his George Cross in 1946
www.rafinfo.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /rafescape/guerisse.htm   (3974 words)

  
 Nancy Wake
In 1960 she married John Forward and returned to Australia to live.
Albert Guerisse established the PAT escape line in which three of F section's best couriers served their clandestine apprenticeship - Andree Borrel, Madeleine Damerment, and Nancy Wake.
This line eventually carried over six hundred members of the allied forces-most of them shot-down aircrew back from hostile territory to fight again.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SOEwake.htm   (1297 words)

  
 Dr. Albert Guerisse, Belgian War Hero, 78 - Free Preview - The New York Times
Albert Guerisse, Belgian War Hero, 78 - Free Preview - The New York Times
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - LEAD: Dr. Albert Guerisse, a hero of the Belgian underground who helped Allied airmen escape from occupied Europe during World War II, died on Sunday, his family said today.
Albert Guerisse, a hero of the Belgian underground who helped Allied airmen escape from...
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 George Cross Database - Bibliographic list of general and more specific GC books and publications
The author of the illustrative awards for the GC is Herbert Reed and the EGM is William Hand.
Includes six chapters detailing full citations of Albert Medal and Edward Medal, with two further chapters on the Empire Gallantry Medal as well as other Military and Civilian Gallantry awards.
An account of the earthquake and the relief work that resulted in the award of three Albert Medals and seven Empire Gallantry Medals, later exchanged for the George Cross by the following recipients: Florence Allen, Arthur Brooks, John Cowley, Mata Din, Ernest Elston, George Henshaw, Alfred Lungley, Robert Spoors, Nandlal Thapha and Ahmed Yar.
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 Amazon.com: Safe Houses Are Dangerous: Books: Helen Long,Pat O'Leary,Albert-Marie Guerisse (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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