Reference WMO/279205
Address:
Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove
National Memorial Arboretum
Croxall Road
Alrewas
Burton-on-Trent
DE13 7AR
England
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- Second World War (1939-1945)
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Baker found that the established 'ratlines' for helping escapers to get out of France were significantly disrupted by the landings, and the French Resistance was increasingly interested in becoming an overt force. With assistance only from his second-in-command Captain Pringle Dunn and eight French agents, his unit were able to arrange for 146 people ('escaping Allied airmen or prisoners of war, evaders left over from unsuccessful attacks on D-Day and important political refugees') to get to Britain. He volunteered to go over the front line to make initial contact with a party of 138 Allied pilots who had hidden in the Fôret de Fréteval near Châteaudun. He was and still is remembered here by his daughter Penelope on the 5th August 2017 with an Ash Tree (Fraxinus Jaspidea)
Captain Peter Arthur David Baker MC
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