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A veteran interview with

Stan Hope

Stan Hope was an RAF evader on the Comète Line. He eventually reached the Pyrenees before being captured with the late Andrée De Jongh (aka “Dédée”).

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Stan joined the RAF in July 1940 and was assigned to a reconnaissance unit and returning from a mission his aircraft had engine failure, and he baled out over occupied Belgium. After walking for two days he was able to board a train to Brussels where his ability to speak French helped him. Here he met the Resistance who used the Comète Line to smuggle him to a village near the Spanish border.

Here his group was discovered by German troops. Despite being in civilian clothes with false papers he, and his comrades, avoided being shot. They were interrogated quite roughly and he spent four months in solitary confinement. Eventually he was taken to a Gestapo prison and later to a POW camp where he faced further interrogation. Near the end of the war he and his comrades were moved to several different camps before eventually being freed in May 1945.

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Interviewed by:
Martyn Cox
Reviewed by:
David Mishan

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A veteran interview with

Stan Hope

Stan-Hope

Stan Hope was an RAF evader on the Comète Line. He eventually reached the Pyrenees before being captured with the late Andrée De Jongh (aka “Dédée”).

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Hope, Stan. A Veteran Interview with Stan Hope. Interview by Martyn Cox. Legasee, n.d. https://www.legasee.org.uk/veteran/stan-hope/. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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Hope, S. A Veteran Interview with Stan Hope [Internet]. Interview by M. Cox. Legasee; n.d. [cited 2025 Apr 18]. Available from: https://www.legasee.org.uk/veteran/stan-hope/
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