Re: Lancaster Bomber 514 Squadron
More about Freteval!
I have found information about an Australian airman called Noel Eliot, 218 Squadron . Eliot crashed near Poix on May 1st 1944 and was led from safe to safe house from northern France to Freteval.
He apparently stayed there with you . I have also the names of the leader of the airmen who was Peter BURY (RAF) . Eliot returned to France in 1962 and in 1980. In 1980 he returned to Freteval and visited the Forest again. He also visited the farmhouse of MR FOUCHARD . At this place stayed Charles "Jock" WEIR F/O Kevin John O'Neill (Jack) Lynch RAAF, ROY RICE USAAF. Eliot also visited Baron Blomaert in Belgium. By an extraordinary coincidence I happen to know one of the ex-Resistants ladies who now lives near Beauvais and who belonged ot the Comete network which helped Eliot. She is not the lady who housed him, but she used to pick up airmen at the same mill in Northern France and remembered the names and places. Most of the men mentionned here went through her network, via Paris to Freteval. She only found out the names after 60 years because each connection was not supposed to know anything about the others.
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