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7 de may. de 2018 · Brothers in arms … Morpurgo’s uncles Pieter Cammaerts, who was killed in the RAF and Pieter’s brother Francis, who worked for the Special Operations Executive. Composite: Egmont
Francis Charles Albert Cammaerts, DSO (16 June 1916 – 3 July 2006), code named Roger, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe and Asia against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. In France, SOE agents allied themselves with French ...
27 de ene. de 2016 · Occupied France, 1944. Francis Cammaerts stepped from a train onto the railway station platform in Avignon. Almost immediately, German security forces at a checkpoint became suspicious and asked ...
27 de ene. de 2016 · Occupied France, 1944. Francis Cammaerts stepped from a train onto the railway station platform in Avignon. Almost immediately, German security forces at a checkpoint became suspicious and asked for his papers. The son of a Belgian poet and English actress, he was everything you would never expect in a secret agent. Cammaerts had been...
29 de ago. de 2021 · Later in the war, she parachuted into Vichy to help organise French resistance fighters in southeast France, and famously rescuing the leader of her network, Francis Cammaerts, by a combination of bravado and cunning, when he was captured by the arrested by the Gestapo. Churchill claimed that she was his favourite agent.
30 de may. de 2019 · Michael Morpurgo remembers his heroic uncle, Francis Cammaerts. Michael Morpurgo (third row, right) and family in 1948. His uncle Francis (front) served in the Special Operations Executive. Credit ...
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Francis Cammaerts, headmaster and former SOE agent, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre, having been led to believe he is there for makeup tests for a future programme.
