Roger and Sandra Downton in their canoe 'Sardine' |
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Roger at Cockleshell Heroes Memorial St George de Didonne |
Operation Frankton Memorial |
Operation Frankton Memorial |
Sardine, full ahead |
Old Lighthouse at Pointe de Grave |
Plaque at Pointe de Grave |
Camp one, 'Crusoe Island' |
Hide 2. Portes de Callonge, east bank. Spring tide meant very low ebb, therefore lots of mud! |
Triumphantly, Roger and Sandra approach Pont d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux |
U boat pens, Bordeaux |
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Plaque at La Toque Blanche Restaurant, Ruffec, showing Lt Colonel Hasler, Jean Mariuad, Yvonne Mandinaud and others of the French Resistance who aided the survivors dramatic escape |
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The isolated 'Marvaud' farmhouse of the Dubreuille family, close to the village of St Coutant.
Hasler and Sparks were spirited there from Ruffec,and subsequently spent forty-one anxious, claustrophobic days and nights huddled together in the farmhouse before the Resistance, organised by the formidable Mary Lindell (alias, Mairie Claire), moved them on to Lyon and through the Pyrenees to Perpignan, Barcelona, and Madrid where Major Hasler was repatriated. Sparks continued on alone to Gibraltar and was finally shipped home |
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The actual tiny room in the 'Marvaud' farmhouse and the specially adapted and disguised adjoining double door where Hasler and Sparks were incarcerated together for forty-one claustrophobic and intense days at the beginning of their escape |
Plaque at the 'Marvaud' farmhouse |
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A genuine articulate 'Placing Rod' as used to attach the magnetic Limpet Mines to enemy ships in Bordeaux |
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