sidevalve (#10987),
Thank you for your brilliant desciption of the "Comet" escape route, and the maps. I had not realised how extensive and how well organised the system was. I would surmise that, postwar, most people here, if they thought about it at all, imagined it to be small scale "ad hoc" business. This has opened my eyes.
And all honour to the Countess de Jongh ! (RIP). She was well worthy to be ennobled by the Belgian king, and of the award of the George Medal here in 1946. But it is possible for an Honorary Knight or Dame-hood to be awarded to non-British subjects. Most of these have naturally gone to military men, but a more recent civilian example is Spike Milligan (an Irish citizen).
Could we not have stretched as far for her ?
Danny.