That's fairly unusual Kookabat.. Most helpers adopted a "nom-de-guerre" for security reasons. We'll come back to this later on in George's story, but he (like a few others) came back after the war to look up those people who'd helped him.
George mentions Lily Dumont, now 'Michou' Ugeux*, in his account. Aline Lily Dumont, alias “Michou,” was one the most important agents in the Comète line from 1943 onwards. Due to her knowledge of, and connections with, the intelligence services such as “Marc,” “Clarence” and “Bayard,” she was able to gather evaders from several services to Brussels and help them escape to Spain.
"Nadine" and "Michou" Dumont (taken before Nadine's arrest when they were ~15 & 17 respectively)
Between December 1943 and May 1944 she led ten people in two trips to the south of France, crossing the Pyrenees twice. On May 10, 1944 she was forced to suspend her activities and arrived in London on June 22. She had by then assisted no fewer than 150 pilots. M.I.9 asked her to enter the “Retriever” secret services. Known as “Mrs. Hawkins,” and with “Mrs. Robson” (Mrs. Hanotte, MBE) they were the only Belgian women, to receive special SOE-retriever training** in Great Britain. They both achieved excellent results in their training, especially with the use of coded messages.
At the end of their course the Allies had already reached Brussels and SOE decided not to drop them in Belgium. Nevertheless, she was one of our most courageous female agents of World War II. Lily was at first recommended for gazetting as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), but after reconsidering her file, the Directorate of Military Intelligence decided to propose her for the George Medal, a similar procedure as used for the award presented to Mme. De Greef (aka 'Tante Go'), who ran Comet South from start to finish.
Michou lives in Provence and I was honoured to meet her 3 years ago.
* Michou's husband Pierre Ugeux was the president of the Formula One's governing body, the CSI, before it became the FIA.
** Does anyone know what SOE-retriever training was?