Sunday Telegraph</b>, October 20, 1979. (London Day By Day)
"Belgian courage"
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Thanks to the BBC's *Secret Army* series, many more now know 
of the wartime activities of Belgian Resistance fighters and 
in particular of their highly successful efforts to rescue 
British and Commonwealth aircrew shot down over their 
country.

The airmen were harboured in houses in Brussels, then taken 
down the famous "Comete" lines through occupied France and 
over the Spanish frontier near Biarritz.

They paid heavily for their courage, and their sacrifice is 
annualy remembered on Oct. 20, the day in 1943 when seven of 
them were executed by the Gestapo on the spot where Edith 
Cavell had been shot 28 years ago.

Today's memorial service in Brussels will be attended by 30 
members of the R.A.F. Escaping Society. Britain's Military 
Representative at Nato, Air Chief Marshall Sir Alasdair 
Steedman, who is leading the British visitors, told me from 
Brussels that British television viewers have been well-
informed by *Secret Army*; though the characters are 
fictitious the facts are true.



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