Escape & Evasion Report

5 Sep 1943	Baled out & landed unconcious in a field near Sorbon (~40kms NE of Reims).
6 Sep 1943	Taken by car to a house in Rethel (very near to Sorbon). Leonard Marsh (RAF) was brought to see him. Stayed there until ...
~15 Sep 1943	Taken by car to Ville-sur-Retourne (~16kms SE of Rethel), where Marsh was staying.
?	There's a gap here.
~12 Oct 1943	Raymonde Beuré moved Clarke & Marsh to a cabin, she owned, in woods near to Sillery. Val Johnson (RAF) & Fred Murray (USAAF) arrived while they were there.
? Oct 1943	Germans begain searching the woods, so they were moved, possibly to Gaston Georgeton's house in Sillery.
?	There's a gap here.
Nov 1943	Paul Quenot collected Clarke & Marsh from Cornelle(?) and drove them to Abbé Micho of Châtillon (possibly Cuisles-par-Châtillon).
Nov 1943	Abbé Micho passed them onto Capt. Sarvagnac.
?	Another gap here.
end Dec 1943?	Crossed the Pyrenees, but don't know at which place.

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Name	Harold Norman CLARKE	Rank	Sgt
Number	1392903	Date of Birth	3 August 1922
Squadron	149 Squadron, Bomber Command, RAF
Aircraft	Stirling	Crew position	Flight Engineer
Based at	Lakenheath, Suffolk, UK
Target	Mannheim, Germany	Failed to return	5 September 1943
Escape Networks	Possum Line	Escape	?
Arrival home	Left Gibraltar - 5 February 1944 Whitchurch, UK - 6 February 1944	Reference	UKNA:SPG/1756 - Harold Clarke UKNA:SPG/1754 - Leonard Marsh