Agents and Helpers

Name	Mme. Lucienne MULETTE (née Ledru) Mlle. Simone LEDRU	Aliases
Date of birth	28 May 1918 - Lucienne 28 July 1920 - Simone	Profession	Dressmaker - Lucienne Bank clerk - Simone
Address	Rue des Conclusions, Fismes, Marne, France	Spouse/ Children
Position	Safe-house	Awards	Medal of Freedom (US) - Lucienne
		References	NARA:RG498/290/55/27/2 Box 303 - Awards' file - Lucienne Mulette NARA:RG498/290/55/27/2 Box 177 - Awards' file - Eugène Gobert NARA:RG498/290/55/27/2 Box 244 - Awards' file - Charles Ledru NARA:RG498/290/55/27/2 Box ? - Awards' file - Raymond Gallet See text for references to airmen

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Last updated on 10 June, 2009

Simone and Lucienne were sisters, the step-daughters of Eugène Gobert. They gave shelter to six airmen, listed below. Raymond Gallet claims they also sheltered eight RAF airmen, but only one name (Johnson) is known. Recollections of how long the airmen stayed with them differ widely. The dates given below have been estimated from the airmen's evasion reports.

23 - 29 Aug 1943	John DesRochers (USAAF) Ellis Klein (USAAF)	Brought & collected by Lucien Labdant (gendarme)
8 - 11 Oct 1943	Fred Murray (USAAF)
12 - 21 Oct 1943	John DesRochers (USAAF) Ellis Klein (USAAF)	Brought by Raymond Gallet
9 - 13 Nov 1943	Val Johnson (RAF)
end Dec 1943	Donald Ogilvie (USAAF) Bruce Kilmer (USAAF)

At the end of December 1943 Donald Ogilvie and Bruce Kilmer (USAAF) were staying with Lucienne Mulette and Simone Ledru, when the Germans began their search of Fismes. Ogilvie and Kilmer evaded capture. There are two slightly different versions of this event:

Denise Boivin and Simone Ledru managed to get Ogilvie and Kilmer to Reims. Denise recorded this event as 8th January 1944, but it's generally thought to have occurred on or soon after 31st December 1943. In Reims, they were sheltered for two nights by one of Denise's sisters, whose fiancé (René Masset) then escorted them into the Ardennes.
on 31st December 1943, Gilberte Gobert, another sister of Simone, drove Ogilvie, Kilmer and Simone to Mme. Boussard, an aunt, in Villemoyenne, Fère-en-Tardenois (~50kms WSW of Reims). Simone stayed with them for ten days. Ogilvie and Kilmer remained there for about six weeks.

Simone Ledru went into hiding for eight months at Chateau-Thierry (60 kms SW of Reims) and in Paris..

Lucienne Mulette was arrested on 31st December 1943 and held in Reims's prison, then:

• 20th January 1944	taken to Laon
• 14th June 1944	taken to Romainville
• 19th June 1944	deported to Sarrebrück Neue Bremm
• 7th July 1944	arrived at Ravensbrück (No. 44644)
• 22nd July 1944	kommando (forced-labour camp) at Schlieben/Buchenwald, working on flame throwers
• 15th August 1944	kommando at Attenbruck(?), working in a munitions factory
• 14th April 1945	liberated by the Americans
• 18th May 1945	repatriated