ANDREE DUMON, aged 102
A trainee nurse who joined the Comet Line (Belgian Resistance), helping airmen escape. She was captured, tortured and sentenced to die – but didn’t – just.
JANINE DE GREEF, aged 95
Along with all of her family she was a key member of the Comet Line, getting Allied airmen out of Belgium at great risk to herself.
BRIAN ROBINSON, aged 91
A joiner from Huddersfield, he represented GB at the 1952 Olympics before becoming the first British cyclist to complete the Tour de France and then win a stage. A pioneer for the later golden age of British cycling.
MONIQUE HANOTTE, aged 101
A Belgian schoolgirl who joined the Comet Line, rescuing Allied airmen from the Nazis, she was forced into a daring escape herself.
JUSTUS ROSENBERG, aged 100
A refugee from Poland he became an active member of the French Resistance with a dramatic escape from the Nazis. In later life a professor in universities.
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