Lucien Delacroix was involved in finding lodgings, in and around Contay, for evading airmen, as well as feeding, clothing and transporting them.

On 21st January 1944, Dr. Beaumont passed on John Watlington (RCAF) & Alden Faudie (USAAF) to Mme. Puchois (a farmer) and Robert Deghetto and Carlyle Darling (USAAF) to Mme. Magniez. Delacroix provided the food for Deghetto and Darling.

On 5th March 1944 Leroy Goswick, Frank McDonald, Frederick Kelly and Edward DeCoste (USAAF) arrived by themselves as they had been shot down in the area. Delacroix housed them with Mme. Colombe Magniez & Mme. Delplanque (Pauline Couvreur) of Contay. On 12th April, they were conveyed by M. Dhaille & M. Delacroix from Contay to Hebuterne, where Eliane Méplaux lived. According to Kelly, two other US airmen were also in the party - Edward O'Leary and Donald Girard of the 384 BG / 544 BS. After sheltering them for a few days, Mme. Méplaux sent them to Paris with her sister and 14 year old nephew. On 15th April 1944, the Gestapo searched her house for the airmen.

Leonard Cox (RCAF) was sheltered by the Delacroix,. Cox states he was caught the day after he left M Delacroix. However, this contradicts statements of other helpers, who claim that Cox was arrested on 15th April 1944, after leaving Pauline Delplanque's house. There is no other evidence to support this claim.

On 3rd May 1944 the Gestapo arrested Delacroix and took him to the Amiens citadel; he was then transferred to Compiègne. On 2nd July 1944, he was deported to Dachau, where he died in February 1945.

Note. The Gestapo group, who arrested Delacroix, comprised Jean Grellet of Amiens, Janichel/Yenickel - a Pole - and a German named Bromman or Bruckmann.