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Secret agent's life celebrated with blue plaque
Yeo-Thomas was captured and tortured by the Gestapo |
The life of one of the first secret agents of World War II to receive the George Cross has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque.
Forest Frederic Edward Yeo-Thomas, code name the White Rabbit, lived in Guildford Street, Camden, London, where the plaque was unveiled.
Yeo-Thomas joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) but was captured and tortured by the Gestapo.
He escaped from a concentration camp and died in 1964 at the age of 62.
Yeo-Thomas, who was brought up in France, joined the RAF in 1939 - the year he met his second wife Barbara.
The couple lived at Queen Court, the site of the English Heritage blue plaque.
Gestapo torture
After completing more than two years in the RAF, including work as an intelligence officer in Fighter Command, Yeo-Thomas joined the SOE.
The plaque was unveiled in Guildford Street in Camden, Thomas paine biography. |