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Hi Glyn, Any chance of a higher resolution copy of the ground photo? I don't think its the one in the extract from frame 1028 of sortie...

Despite these successes, Girard and Meslin were all too painfully aware of the overall slow rate of progress. Most of the intelligence gathered to...

Meanwhile, Leonard Gille, the recruiting officer for the new ‘Centurie’ network had gone to a small, cramped studio off the rue Geole. He was...

The pigeon in question was found in the marshes north of Bayeux by two workmen. Within German occupied France in that spring of 1942, possession...

Hi Glyn, The following ties show the long shed and red/blue gate piers still in place: [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] I would wonder if the damage to the...

I had a look at the Saint Germain church in Bretteville L’Orgeulleuse and was surprised to see it's tower and steeple appears to have survived the...

New agents were now being recruited almost weekly. Many were to prove shining examples of the faith to which Dewavrin had spoken in London. Two...

The courier chosen by Meslin to bring the reports from Caen to Paris was Maurice Himbert, who owned a motorbike repair shop. He had valid reasons...

Roger Deschambres, the plumber now remembered that some weeks previously, back in March while fixing the central heating in the Hotel de Rouen,...

The danger to which Girard referred could not be overstated. The Gestapo were located at No. 25 Rue des Jacobins in Caen, which the book states...

Girard had overlooked very little. As with all the networks Renault had founded, the new network was to be run on the lines of a French military...

I want to take time for a brief description of each back gammon player present at that meeting in the Café des Touristes that evening. No exact...

Girard gave Meslin a brief account of his meeting with Renault. The new Network was to be divided into cells; Meslin would take charge of the Caen...

I found a 'then and now' photo of the 'mellow red-bricked house with stone sashed windows' amongst Michel Le Querrec's Flickr collection here....

Chapter 5 – A NETWORK IS BORN (p.51) Marcel Girard returned to his native Caen after the Paris meeting with Renault on Saturday, the 4th April...

I want to go back a bit to the meeting between Gilbert Renault and Pierre Brossolette described in Post #10 above. This was an important meeting...

Continued from page 51 (1960 Corgi Edition) - Chapter 5 - 'A Network is Born'... In order to see where we are in this fascinating story, I have...

Before moving on, I want to google some of the people and places mentioned in the book so far. I have also gone through the index to another book;...

Marcel Girard met with Renault on the morning of Wednesday, 1st April 1942 in one of the old plastered houses of the Rue Caulaincourt in the...

During the car journey to RAF Tangmere, Gilbert Renault kept asking himself how had this happened and how badly compromised was his network. Then...