F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas
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Wing Commander Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas, known as "Tommy", was a British Special Operations Executive agent in the Second World War. Codenamed "Seahorse" and "Shelley" in the SOE, Yeo-Thomas
Marker for Yeo-Thomas' ashes in Brookwood Cemetery
The blue plaque on Yeo-Thomas' flat in Guilford Street
George Cross and its ribbon bar
Phil Lamason
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Phillip John Lamason, was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concen
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas
…off as a French national and was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag XX-B, near Marienburg. While at Buchenwald, Yeo-Thomas met Squadron Leader Phil Lamason, the officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen, also being held there. At great risk, Yeo-Thomas assisted Lamason in getting word out of the camp to the…
Lamason c. 1942
Lamason (third from right) and his crew standing in front of their Lancaster heavy bomber; early 1944.
Lamason in the pilot's seat of the cockpit of a Stirling Bomber in 1942
Lamason (centre) and another airman (Ken Chapman) playing chess in Chevreuse with a Frenchwoman whose family hid them for two weeks.