LA RESISTANCE DANS LE TERNOIS

English version
APPENDICES
1)
Structure of réseau "Bordeaux-Loupiac" from August 1943 until the Liberation: FREVENT Sector
2)
List of allied airmen recovered in the FREVENT-ST POL-AUXI-AVESNES sector from January 1943 until the Liberation
3) The accident at REBREUVIETTE on 13 March 1943
4) The sabotage of the "Pont de la Rue de Doullens" at FREVENT the night of 21 August 1944
5)
Sabotage attacks against the railways in the FREVENT-AUXI-ST POL sector from 1941 to 1944
6) "Terrorist" activities in the FREVENT-AUXI-le-CHATEAU region from June to October 1943
7) List of FFI Volunteers who were victims of the Fight for Freedom
8)
Deportees and internees of the Resistance: Details of the arrests and casualties in the FREVENT-AUXI-ST POL sector
9) The arrest of Madame Sidonie GUITTARD, my mother




APPENDIX 1
FORCES FRANCAISES COMBATTANTES : ZONE NORD
Réseau Evasion " Bordeaux-Loupiac "
Secteur FREVENT-AUXI-LE-CHATEAU-AVESNES LE COMTE-SAINT POL SUR TERNOISE
 
Structure from August 1943 until Liberation
Sector Chief: René GUITTARD alias 'Banjo' with his young wife Marie-Thérèse née Dumont
Assistants: Jean COTON alias 'Bob' and Eugène GUITTARD alias 'Just'
Liaison for Lille and Arras: George LION alias 'Guy'
Liaison for the rest of the sector: Gérard MALO and Jean PARSY
Convoyeur: Pierre COLLEMENT

People Responsible for the five Sub-sectors
FREVENT-WEST: Maurice DOURLENS of Fillièvres and l'Abbé GUERLET of Fillièvres
FREVENT-EAST: Paul DEBRET of Honval and Pierre CHABE of Rebreuviette
FREVENT-SOUTH: Léon RESIMONT of Bonnières
AUXI-LE-CHATEAU: Joseph BECKER of Auxi, Marcel HERARD of Le Ponchel
SAINT-POL-sur TERNOISE: Jean MASSERON of St Pol

Vehicles and drivers used to transport evaders
Paul LEMAIRE of Frévent
Roger and Pierre MERCIER: Renault dealers at Frévent
Alcide HUCLIER: bus driver with 'Bajus' at Avesnes le Comte
Joseph BECKER of Auxi-le-Château
Charles REVILION : heating engineer at Frévent

"Boîte aux lettres" and collection points for airmen
Sidonie GUITTARD (Café) Rue de Doullens in Frévent
Alice COQUIDE Rue de Doullens of Frévent

List of those who sheltered evaders
FREVENT: Dr et Mme Pierre CUALLACCI, René et Marie-Thérèse GUITTARD, Eugène GUITTARD, Alice COQUIDE, Louise GERON, Fernand ANCET, Fernand PEUCELLE, Denise HUSSON, Caroline MOTHAUX, Jean LAVOGEZ, Suzanne LOUIS, Louise DUCATEL, Paul WAILLE, Gérard MALO, Robert MONCOMBLE, Julien LEFEBVRE, Raymond HETROY
FREVENT-WEST: Maurice DOURLENS (Fillièvres), René GERAULT (Fillièvres), l'Abbé GUERLET (Fillièvres), Raymond MERCHEZ (Fillièvres), Ernestine SAINT-SOLIEUX (Monchel s/Canche), André CROCHART (Conchy s/Canche), Rémy DELBE Boubers sur Canche) Jean CHETIVEAUX (Wail)
FREVENT-EAST: Paul DEBRET (Honval), Pierre CHABE (Rebreuviette), Lucien LETHO (Rebreuve s/Canche), Marius QUENTIN (Honval), Jeanne BERTOUX (Estrée-Wamin), Joseph FATOUX (Rebreuve s/Canche), Gaston LECOCQ (Estrée-Wamin), Jean LECLERCQ (Bruneville), René DUCROQUET (Avesnes-le-Comte)
FREVENT-SOUTH: Léon RESIMONT (Bonnières), Daniel CARPENTIER (Fortel-en-Artois), Abel LAMART (Fortel-en-Artois), Maurice BERTOUX (Boffles), Lucienne HOULLIER (Lucheux), Hubert LECHERF (Bouquemaison), Georges PARSY (Bouquemaison), André DUVAUCHELLE (Le Souich), Jules DEVILLERS (Bouquemaison), Ernest Hemery (Lucheux)
Sub-sector of AUXI-le-CHATEAU: Marcel HERARD (Le Ponchel), Dr BOUTIN (Auxi), Mme Vve LANCIOT (Auxi), Joseph BECKER (Auxi), Théophile FORGEZ (Le Quesnoy), Famille COLSON (Gueschart), Louise BOULANGER (Le Ponchel), Emile FOURNIER (Gennes-Yvergny), Jacques TOQUENNE (Vaulx), Marguerite THELLIER (Boufflers), Georges VARIERAS (Gueschart), Alfred DEVISSE (Labroye)
SAINT-POL s/TERNOISE: Jean MASSERON, Maurice GUGELOT, Alfred VERITE

People who provided additional support for the evaders
(Recuperation, shelter, food, false papers, medical care etc ..)
Farmers and growers: André CROCHART (Conchy s/Canche), Joseph DUMONT (Frévent), Paul CHABE (Frévent), Guy et René BOUILLET (Rebreuviette), André DUPOND (Frévent), Roland HERBETTE (Conchy s/Canche), René VASSEUR (Monchel s/Canche), Simon PODEVIN (Monchel s/Canche), Paul DEBRET (Honval), Léon RESIMONT (Bonnières), François SACLEUX (Aubrometz), Marc CLERET (Monchel s/Canche), André DUVAUCHEL (Le Souich)
Other suppliers: Paul LEMAIRE (Vins et Spiritueux à Frévent), René DELFORGE (Boucher à Frévent), Théophile ROUGET (Boulanger à Frévent), Mme VENIEL (Tabac à Frévent)
Medical treatment for injured airmen: Docteur CUALLACCI et son remplaçant Docteur WALLYN (Frévent), Docteur BOUTIN et Docteur Georges HIBON (Auxi-le-Château), Docteur CARETTE (Saint-Pol s/Ternoise), Docteur JACQUEMELLE (Lucheux)
Civilian clothing: Suzanne LOUIS (Couturière à Frévent), Maurice HEMBISE (Confections à Frévent), Armand BRENET (Bonneterie à Frévent), Joseph RIMBAULT à Frévent
Food coupons and blank false papers: Mlle Marie-Rose MARTEL (employée à la Mairie de Frévent), les instituteurs-secrétaires de Mairie, FATOUX (Rebreuve s/Canche), BARBIER (Villers L'Hôpital), HERARD (Le Ponchel), les gendarmes André DURIEZ et Marcel COCQUERELLE (de la Brigade de Frévent), Georges LION (par l'intermédiaire d'un employé au Commissariat de Police d'ARRAS)

Creation of false identity cards and false work permits, and ensuring they conformed with the latest regulations: René et Eugène GUITTARD (Frévent), Marcel HERARD (Le Ponchel)



APPENDIX 2
LIST OF 56 AIRMEN HELPED BETWEEN JANUARY 1943 AND SEPTEMBER 1944
Secteur Frévent - St Pol - Avesnes le Comte - Auxi le Château
Some additional information included that is not found in the original document
GREAT BRITAIN: 18
H.G. Wilson - A. Risley - J. Allison - N.T. Fairfax - R. Mac Leod - E.G. Haddock - G. Boucher - W. Wood - L. Prickett - G.W. Kelly - G.L. Powels - E. Howard - J.H. Merlin - D.N. Thompson - J . Slater - R.N. Hooper - B. Lawrence - R.F. Boots
F/O Maurice H G Wilson (LIB/56) - captured near Boulou June 43
F/O Arthur H Riseley (1496)
F/O James C Allison (1461)
F/O Norman T Fairfax (1536)
F/Sgt Roderick J A Macleod (1537)
F/Lt Edwin A Haddock (LIB/861) - captured at Drache Feb 44
F/Sgt Ernest G Boucher (1595)
F/Sgt William S Wood USAAF (#252)
P/O Leslie A Prickett (LIB/1561) - captured in Paris Dec 43
F/O Graham W Kelly (LIB/1459) - captured in Paris Dec 43
F/Sgt Leslie A Thomas Powell (2389)
E Howard
Sgt Harold E R Merlin (2432)
P/O David N Thompson (405 Sqn Lancaster JB737)
Sgt James Slater (2/430/1231)
F/O R N Hooper (2/411/497)
2/Lt Billy C Lawrence USAAF - captured in Dunkirk
F/Sgt Robert F Boots (2291)
U.S.A: 24
O. Douglas - H.T. James - O.S. Greene - B. Erickson - W.W. Rice - J.C. Wilson - W. Hargrove - R. Mac Miller - J. Bartemus - A. Ornatek - R. Williams - T. Honick - J. Duddley - J.F. Doyle - C.P. Leibring - T. Kindall - J. Harris - G. Fruli - B. Zyclowicz - S. Baranowsky - E.M. Dawes - C. Mac Bride - J. Cooper - M. Bachmann
2/Lt Douglas C Hoehn (#38)
H T James
S/Sgt Orville T Greene (#386)
T/Sgt Bertil E Erickson (#336)
S/Sgt William W Rice (#297)
S/Sgt James G Wilson (#289)
2/Lt Walter Hargrove (#293)
2/Lt Richard M Miller B-17 42-30249 El Sabo
2/Lt John W Bartemus B-17 42-30249 El Sabo
S/Sgt Anthony A Ornatek (#2427) B-17 42-30249 El Sabo
S/Sgt Robert L Williams B-17 42-30249 El Sabo
T Honick
S/Sgt John William Dudley B-24 Carpetbagger 42-63789
2/Lt Judson F Doyle (#2332)
S/Sgt Clarence P Leibring (#1469)
2/Lt Thomas H Kendall B-24 Carpetbagger 42-63792
J Harris
T/Sgt Gaetano A Fruili (#731)
S/Sgt Bernard F Zyglowicz (#1600)
2/Lt Stanley Baranofsky (#1142)
2/Lt Erling M Dawes (#1873)
2/Lt Charles C McBride (#1853)
S/Sgt Jack L Cooper (#1912)
S/Sgt Melvin L M Bachman (#1897)
CANADA: 7
B. Marion - G.T. Gibson - W.R. Mac Dougall - F. Baldwin - Mac Gillivray - A.S. Guluche - M. Nordin Gus
P/O Bernard H Marion (1213)
F/Sgt G T Gibson 425 Sq Halifax LW390
F/Sgt W R McDougall 425 Sq Halifax LW390
F Baldwin
Sgt Donald K MacGillivray (1697)
F/Sgt A J Guluche
Sgt Gus M Nordin (2467)
AUSTRALIA: 4
A.H. Morrisson - W.O. Jennings - F. Maples - R. Watson
F/O Arnold H Morrison (2470)
F/Sgt D R Jennings (2277)
Sgt F A Maples (2276)
Sgt R R Watson (2278)
NEW ZEALAND: 3
K;Ierry - J.M. Checketts - J.E. Mortimer.
F/Sgt Terrence S F Kearins (1498)
S/Ldr Johnny M Checketts (1495)
F/O James E Mortimer (2275)


APPENDIX 3
The accident at REBREUVIETTE on 13 March 1943
On 12 March 1943 "Antoine" sent a "Bordeaux-Loupiac" convoyeur from Lille to take a group of six airmen (5 Americans and 1 English, all lodged in Frévent) to Paris via Arras, the following day. Deprived of our usual means of transport, one of our friends persuaded the owner of a small gazogène truck to drive us. The rendez-vous was set for 7 pm at the Guittard Café.
The convoyeur from Lille, our friend Pierre Collement and myself took charge of two airmen each and left at 9 pm in the small covered truck. In spite of the falling night and a light fog which the semi-camouflaged headlights could hardly penetrate, all went extremely well until Rebreuviette. Alas! On leaving the village, on the last turn towards Estrée-Wamin, emergency braking could not prevent the collision with a truck coming in opposite direction. **** (Stupéfaction !! in the original) It was carrying German soldiers.
Pierre Collement shouted some gibberish with a few words in German and leapt towards them, starting an epic argument punctuated with violent gestures. While this is going on, the eight occupants manage to slip out of the back of the gazogène and disappear into the Bois de Martinchon which borders the road, and continue on foot, avoiding the German patrols, to Frévent. With our return, you can imagine the reactions of our friends and parents. Everyone was sent to spend the night either at the Guittard Café, with Miss Suzanne Louis or Mrs Vve Coquidé, who both lived near the café. As it was essential that our 'parcels' were delivered to Arras by 14 March at the latest, we decided to ask Alcide Huclier, the driver of the "Bajus" bus, which runs a regular service from Frévent to Arras, to help us.
With everyone on the bus, we arrived without problems at the reception centre at 20 Rue St Quentin in Arras with our six airmen 'parcels' and the convoyeur from Lille, at 10 o'clock in the morning of 14 March. Also with us, on the same "Bajus" bus from Frévent, was Pierre Collement, finally returned from Rebreuviette, who explained the circumstances of this stupid accident. In fact the Germans were using a truck "en fraude" to have a "bonne partie" in Arras. Very anxious about what had happened, they didn't want leave any trace of their prank. So, having the necessary workshop, they even repaired the gazogène, which had been slightly damaged, and which they returned next day in perfect working order to our worried (médusé) driver. 

APPENDIX 4
The sabotage of the "Pont de la Rue de Doullens" at FREVENT the night of 21 August 1944
The supply of flying bombs to the many launch sites built in the area, and the installation of special equipment at Frévent station for unloading heavy materiel, had given the railway St Pol - Frévent - Auxi le Château - Abbeville, a capital strategic importance in the German defensive system. The intensive allied bombardments of July 1944 on St Pol and Frévent had not so far achieved their goal. It was not until the beginning of August 1944, that the transport of V1 rockets by railway was stopped.
The Resistance thus received, at the end of July 1944, the mission to cut this "umbilical cord" of supply to the V1 launch sites in the sector. The cuts of the railway that delayed traffic for a few hours, or a day at the most, didn't really count. On 20 August, the sector AI (Action Immédiate) team decided to strike a major blow by planning to blow up the bridge where the railway crosses the Rue de Doullens in Frévent. The operation took place as night fell on 21 August.
Two large unexploded allied bombs, recovered and defused, were installed under the bridge. The holes where the fuses had been unscrewed were filled with plastic explosive, and their detonators connected to a fifteen minute delayed-action time pencil, the time considered necessary for the saboteurs to get back to their starting base, the firm of DUPONT-CHABE, in the street now known as Rue de Gaulle. The principle of the delayed-action time pencil is very simple. It relies on a soft wire, of a particular thickness, put into contact with an acid by crushing one of the ends of the pencil. The acid corrodes the metal wire which then releases a striker which sets off the denonator. There is also the chemical effect which gives an acid a more powerful action according to the rise in temperature. However, Gerard MALO, our bomb disposal expert responsible for the team of the saboteurs, carried the "pencil" in the inside pocket of his wind-breaker and it had been very hot during the installation of the device. With the "pencil" crushed they had fifteen minutes of delayed-action.
The team set out again quietly by the Rue Joffre and the Ruelle des Marais towards the DUPONT farm. Helas (sic) a few minutes later a terrible explosion pulverized the bridge. Thrown into a panic, our saboteurs started to rush away but ran into a group of German soldiers coming from the Château de Cercamp, mixed in with a crowd of civilians all hurrying towards the site of the explosion. Que faire !! Quickly, in spite of the moonlight, they managed to blend into a quiet corner. Without anything more to see, the crowd dispersed. One of the saboteurs suggested the best solution might be if they all ran in the same direction. The others agreed and they joined the crowd. In this way they returned to the site of the explosion and verified with satisfaction that their action was particularly effective. Pushed back by the Germans who were clearing the onlookers, they finally returned to the DUPONT farm.


APPENDIX 5
SABOTAGE OF THE RAILWAY LINES - 1941 TO 1944
SAINT-POL - AUXI - FREVENT
23/10/1941 150 m of telephone line cut between BRIAS and ST-POL
26/3/1942 Attempted sabotage of switching equipment at TINCQUES station (failed)
2/4/1942 Attempted sabotage of railway lines at BRIAS station (failed)
15/5/1942
Railway line blown up between ALBERT and BEAUCOURT-HAMEL: derailment stopped traffic for seven hours
22/6/1942 Railway line cut with explosives at MONCHY-CAYEUX
12/7/1942 Railway line cut at BEAUCOURT-HAMEL: derailment stopped traffic for seven hours
14/10/1942 Attempted sabotage of railway lines near d'AUXI-le-CHATEAU
7/1/1943 Rails unbolted from the line ST-POL, SAINS-BOUVIGNY
6/3/1943
Rails unbolted at BEAUCOURT-HAMEL: derailment completely blocked the line until 9 March
17/9/1943

Rails unbolted beween BOUQUEMAISON and FREVENT: derailment blocked the line at REBREUVIETTE until the evening of 18 Sept
29/7/1943

Rails unbolted at BEAUCOURT-HAMEL: derailment and collision of military train completely blocked the line until 30 July
28/8/1943 Rails unbolted at MIRAUMONT: derailment completely blocked the line until 30 August
19/9/1943 80 telephone lines cut between FREVENT and FORTEL: stopped service until the morning
28/9/1943 Rails unbolted at FREVENT: derailment stopped service until noon 29 September
29/9/1943
Derailment beween ST-POL and FREVENT: service interrupted until 16.00 hrs on 1 October
4/10/1943

Rails unbolted between ST-POL and WAVRANS: engine and 11 wagons derailed and service interrupted until 18.00 hrs on 5 October
7/10/1943

Rails unbolted between FREVENT and FORTEL: derailment and service interrupted until 22.00 hrs on 9 October
15/10 1943
Rails unbolted between FREVENT and FORTEL: derailment and service interrupted until 16.00 hrs
20/10/1943

Rails unbolted between FREVENT and ST-POL: derailment of German military train and service interrupted until 18.00 hrs on 21 October
25/10/1943 Attempt to set fire to hydraulic works at Auxi station (failed)
8/11/1943 Rail maintenance tools stolen from AUXI
23/11/1943 Rail maintenance tools stolen from CONTEVILLE
25/11/1943 Rails unbolted betwen FORTEL and AUXI: derailment interrupted service until 26 November
31/11/1943 Rails unbolted between AUXI and CONTEVILLE (no result)
27/1/1944
At 22.00 hrs, two telephone poles cut down between AUXI-le-CHATEAU and CONTEVILLE railway stations
27/1/1944 Two telephone poles cut down at AUXI (towards Frévent)
10/2/1944 150 metres of telephone wires cut between ST-POL and FREVENT
16/2/1944 Rails unbolted at WAVANS which obstructed the line until 10.30 hrs
16/2/1944 Rails unbolted between AUXI station and LE FORTEL
24/2/1944 Water hoses for locomotives destroyed at AUXI
24/2/1944 Hydraulic lines for three cranes at ST-POL station shortened by 0.5 metres
2/3/1944 Rails unbolted at CONTEVILLE: no result
21/3/1944 Rails blown up between AUTHIEULIE and HALLOY
11/4/1944 Rails unbolted at CONTEVILLE: no result
7/6/1944 Telephone lines cut at SIBIVILLE
8/6/1044 Telephone lines cut at REBREUVIETTE
1/7/1944 An aqueduct between TINCQUES et LIGNY-St-FLOCHEL sabotaged with explosives
12/7/1944 The PTT, SNCF and VF signal lines cut outside ST-POL station
13/7/1944 Telephone wires on the Amiens line cut 3 kms east of FREVENT station
14/7/1944 Telephone wires on the Amiens line cut 8 kms east of FREVENT station
14/7/1944
FREVENT-DOULLENS VF lines cut with explosives between BOUQUEMAISON and DOULLENS
17/7/1944 300 metres of telephone line cut at FORTEL
25/7/1944 Rail line between LIGNY and ST-POL sabotaged with explosives
26/7/1944 Rail line between DOULLENS and BOUQUEMAISON sabotaged with explosives
26/7/1944 Rail lines between AUTHIEULE and HALLOY cut with explosives: derailment
28/7/1944 Rails blown up with explosives at HALLOY: derailment
31/7/1944 Rails unbolted between MONDICOURT and WARLINCOURT: German train derailed
2/8/1944 Rail line between DOULLENS and BOUQUEMAISON sabotaged with explosives
3/8/1944 Rails unbolted 6 kms south of CONTEVILLE: derailment
5/8/1944 Water tower at ST-POL station sabotaged with explosives
5/8/1944 Rail line 2 kms from BOUQUEMAISON sabotaged with explosives
6/8/1944 Rail line between MONDICOURT and SAULTY sabotaged with explosives
6/8/1944 Telephone poles cut down and lines cut 1 km from AUBIGNY-EN-ARTOIS
7/8/1944 Rail line between REBREUVIETTE and FREVENT sabotaged with explosives
10/8/1944

Metal bridge on the FREVENT-ST-POL railway line between PETIT-HOUVIN and SIBIVILLE, destroyed with explosives
15/8/1944 Rail line between LIGNY ST FLOCHEL and ST-POL sabotaged with explosives: derailment
15/8/1944 Rail line between AUBIGNY and FREVENT-CAPELLE sabotaged: derailment
16/8/1944 Rail line between MONDICOURT and HALLOY sabotaged with explosives
17/8/1944 1 kilometre of telephone cables cut between BOUQUEMAISON and FREVENT
19/8/1944 Rail line between SAVY and TINCQUES sabotaged: derailment of German train
19/8/1944 Rail line between GROUCHES and BOUQUEMAISON sabotaged with explosives
21/8/1944 Rail line between BAJUS and DIEVAL cut with explosives: engine derailed
22/8/1944
Rue de Doullens bridge on the FREVENT-ST-Pol railway line at FREVENT, destroyed with explosives
25/8/1944
Pont du Diable bridge on the FREVENT-ST-POL railway line at SIBIVILLE, destroyed with explosives
26/8/1944 Rail line between AUBIGNY and SAVY sabotaged with explosives
29/8/1944 Rail line at HALLOY sabotaged with explosives
30/8/1944 200 metres of telephone line cut between FREVENT and BOUQUEMAISON
31/8/1944 Rail line between LIGNY ST FLOCHEL and ST POL cut with explosives: derailment
31/8/1944 Rails unbolted between AUBIGNY and MONT ST ELOI

APPENDIX 6
'TERRORIST' ACTIVITY IN THE FREVENT-AUXI LE CHATEAU REGION FROM 1 JUNE 1943
(described as 'terrorist' by the German police)
June
22: Sabotage of a telephone line at AUXI-le-CHATEAU
July
14: Sabotage of a telephone line at NOEUX-LES-AUXI
August
21: Set fire to two grinding stones at MAISMIL-LES-SAINT-POL
21: Burgled the mairie at CONCHY-sur-CANCHE
22: Set fire to a barn full of harvested grain at REBREUVIETTE
23: Set fire to some bags of grain at FORTEL-en-ARTOIS station market
24: Set fire to a barn full of harvested grain at FREVENT
24: Set fire to a barn of harvested grain at SERICOURT
24: Attacked a farm at MAIZIERES
24: Attempted to set fire to a stock of linen at FREVENT
26: Burgled the mairie at PERNES-en-ARTOIS
26: Burgled the mairie at FREVENT
29: Set fire to a barn full of harvested grain at REBREUVIETTE
29: Attacked a farm at FREVENT
September
3: Set fire to a grinding stone at BUIRE-AU-BOIS
6: Set fire to a barn of harvested grain at AUXI-LE-CHATEAU
13: Set fire to a haystack at SIBIVILLE
17: Sabotaged the railway line at REBREUVIETTE
19: Cut the telephone lines at LIGNY-sur-CANCHE
24: Set fire to some bags of grain at FORTEL-en-ARTOIS station
28: Sabotaged the telephone lines at LIGNY-sur-CANCHE
28: Sabotaged the railway lines at FREVENT
28: Sabotaged the railway lines at SIBIVILLE
October
1: Set fire to a barn full of harvested grain at IVERGNY
4: Sabotaged the railway line at GAUCHIN-VERLOINGT
5: Set fire to a barn full of harvested grain at LE SOUICH
5: Attacked a farm at HAUTECLOQUE
7: Attacked a farm at BOURET-sur-CANCHE
8: Sabotaged the railway line at LIGNY-sur-CANCHE
8: Attacked a farm at BONNIERES
9: Attacked a gendarme at BOURET-sur-CANCHE
11: Set fire to a stock of oats at AUXI-le-CHATEAU
15: Sabotaged the railway line at FREVENT
18: Set fire to two straw wagons at AUXI-le-CHATEAU
19: Set fire to a stock of wheat at EPS
20: Sabotaged the railway line at RAMECOURT
20: Damaged a threshing machine at HAUTECLOQUE
23: Cut telephone poles at FREVENT
23: Set fire to a barn at AUXI-le-CHATEAU
25: Sabotaged a water tower at AUXI-le-CHATEAU
25: Attacked a farm at AUXI-le-CHATEAU


APPENDIX 7
LIST OF FFI VOLUNTEERS WHO BECAME CASUALTIES OF THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
SECTOR FREVENT - AUXI - ST POL
13 KILLED:
13 WOUNDED:
BOUCHARD Gilles
BATAILLE Paul
BOUCLY Paul
BECOURT Jules
CHARLES Paul
BELETTE Jean
COCHEZ André
BERTOUX Maurice
COUVILLIERS Oswald
DEROME Urbain
DAUSSE Albert
GERVOIS Georges
DELORY Joseph
LEGRAND Pierre
HERNU Paul
LESTIENNE Maurice
LEMOINE Marcel
MOYNIEZ Gilbert
LESUR François
NOVACEK Aimé
PALLASCHEK Joseph
QUENIART Etienne
PRUVOST Richard
VOISIN Fernand
VANDEWIERE Henri
WAROQUET Georges


APPENDIX 8
Etat des Arrestations : Déportés et Internés
Nom
Profession
Adresse
Arrete
Observations
BAIZET Robert
22-05-09
EDF Auxi-le-Château
31.07.44
interné Loos: libéré 01.09.44
BERNARD Honorat
12.10.88
mecanician Conchy-sur-Conche
10.07.44
déporté Buchenwald: mort 25.02.45
BODELOT Joseph
12.10.19
garde-chasse Berleucourt
10.12.43
déporté Buchenwald: libéré 30.06.45
BEUVRY Zulma née DALLONGEVILLE
25.05.91
sans profession Hericourt
04.06.41
internée Loos: libérée 15.03.43
CANTREL Hector
25.07.72
cultivateur Haut-Mesnil
12.12.43
déporté Gross Rosen: mort 25.11.44
COILLOT Gaston
07.10.94
commercant Frevent
01.05..44
interné Arras: libéré 01.09.44
COTON Jean
30.08.19
menuisier Frevent
09.07.44
déporté Oranienburg: libéré 25.05.45
CUALLACCI Pierre
31.12.04
medecin Frevent
20.07.43
déporté Gross Rosen: libéré 17.05.45
DELEVAL Adrien
14.09.21
employe Auxi-le-Château
11.03.44
interné Bethune: libéré 01.09.44
DRECQ Jacques
07.02.19
photographe St Pol-sur-Ternoise
21.10.43
déporté Bochum: libéré 07.04.45
FLAMBRY Roger
07.03.12
chauffeur Berlencourt
27.08.44
déporté Buchenwald: libéré 28.04.45
FOURDRINOY Georges
27.07.18
cultivateur Vitz-sur-Authie
06.03.44
interné Arras: libéré 15.08.44
FOURDRINOY Elie
19.06.08
cultivateur Vitz-sur-Authie
10.03.44
interné Arras: libéré 15.08.44
FOURDRINOY Anna née PYZYCK
30.01.14
cultivateur
Vitz-sur-Authie
06.03.44
internée Arras: libérée 01.08.44
GUITTARD Sidonie née LEFEBVRE
17.03.97
commercante Frevent 08.04.44
internée Loos: libérée 11.08.44
HENNEBOIS Auguste
04.05.98
retraite Canettemont 17.11.42 interné St Gilles: evadé 25.01.44
LEROY Rene
18.08.17
mineur Berlencourt 10.12.43 déporté Buchenwald: libéré 07.06.45
MAUPIN Marcel
05.10.19
coiffeur Humeroeuille 20.07.43 déporté Eodhein: libéré 28.04.45
MESUREUR Félix
11.06.02
maréchal-ferrant Eclimeux 05.01.44 déporté Dora: libéré 18.05.45
NIVELLE Gaston
09.02.20
comptable Vaulx-les-Auxi 10.03.44 interné Douai: libéré 01.09.44
PETIN Augustin
25.11.15
instituteur Ligny-sur-Canche 20.08.44 interné Amiens: libéré 01.09.44
PETIT Pierre
13.12.03
cultivateur Rougefay 01.08.44 déporté Neuengamme: mort 07.03.45
PLATEL Raymond
cultivateur Gennes-Ivergny 06.03.44 interné Arras: libéré 06.08.44
PRUVOST Gérard
31.01.09
EDF Auxi-le-Château 03.07.44 déporté Oranienburg: libéré 15.04.45
QUENTIN Marcel
03.10.04
cultivateur Sibiville 08.10.43 déporté Hameln: mort 13.04.45
RIMBAULT Maurice
06.09.18
horticulteur Noeux-les-Auxi 17.07.44 déporté Buchenwald: libéré 10.05.45
TACHEUX Emile
26.08.97
EDF Auxi-le-Château 31.07.44 déporté Hambourg: mort 18.11.44 (Neuengamme)
VALOIS Marius
27.01.13
journalier Quoeux Haut Mainil 10.12.43 déporté: disparu
VARLET Elie
25.10.98
GDF Auxi-le-Château 23.06.44

interné Loos: évadé 01.09.44



 
APPENDIX 9
 
René GUITTARD
152 Rue d'Hesdin
62270 FREVENT
 
Avril 1984

8 APRIL 1944
 
MY MOTHER IS ARRESTED
 
To her memory
 
"NINI" is Sidonie GUITTARD (née LEFEBVRE) who, from 1919 to 1944, managed l'Estaminet (the Café) at 33 Rue de Doullens in FREVENT.
I, her son, Rene GUITTARD alias "Banjo" was 21 years old and a very young groom when, in September 1942, through my young wife, I was contacted by Raymond HETROY, a dentist at FREVENT, and invited to join the "Resistance". I engaged in this big adventure with the enthusiasm of youth. From the middle of 1943 I was fully employed, by the successive arrests, and the heavy responsibilities of such a large and active centre as FREVENT, as assistant to Maurice BERTOUX alias "Le Marin", reponsable (responsible person) for the OCM resistance movement, then as the responsable for the escape network "Bordeaux-Loupiac" of the Forces Françaises Combattantes.
The position of Ternois, at the center of German activity building V1 launch sites, resulted in high priority allied bombing action, and a tough enemy response of DCA (Flak). From December 1943 hardly a day went by without us witnessing, either closely or far away, a bombing raid and the parachutes from the many allied aircraft. Which explains the intense activity of recovery, assistance and escape of those allied airmen saved either by their parachute, or more rarely, by a difficult crash landing: 53 airmen were helped the activities of the network.
Quite naturally the "Café Guittard" became an important point de concentration in the sector: "boîte aux lettres" (message drop), discussion centre, meeting place, gathering point. Nini carried on with her job with her usual good-naturedness to all these résistants, all true friends. She not only knew all the team leaders of the sector, but also the people in charge of the departmental and even the regional sectors. In fact Jean DELVALLEZ alias "Boulanger" or "Menu", the responsable, gathered all the officers of the sector together several times in the back room of the estaminet (café) to distribute directives, to organize the clandestine action, and to liase with the responsables from the Somme.
In March and April 1944, we actively prepared for the invasion of France by allied troops. We were all convinced, and the Allies made sure of that, that the landings would take place on the coasts of the Pas-de-Calais or the Somme (Operation FORTITUDE). The plans for the sabotage of road bridges, railways, stores of fuel and military materiel, were developed and the "messages personnels" were all arranged.
We were all impatient to act but also conscious that there would be a violent response by the Gestapo, who were well established in the area. It was obvious that the presence of a dozen allied airmen lodged clandestinely for nearly a month in Frévent and the immediate surroundings, constituted a huge risk in the event of a search. "Menu" was alerted.
At the end of March 1944, during a secret meeting at 33 Rue de Doullens, he told me that contacts were established with the escape network and that he would arrange to send these airmen to Great Britain via Spain soon. The contact message would be: "I come on behalf of Duval No 315". I was the sole contact for the sector.
On 7 April 1944, towards 6 pm, in the café where many of the customers, on their way home from work, were having a drink and discussing the latest news of the Russian and Italian fronts, a stranger sitting by the counter said quietly to my mother:
"Can I see "Banjo"?
- I'm sorry but he's not here.
- Can you contact him quickly because I come on behalf of Duval No 315."
What - I don't understand, replied the astonished Nini, because I had forgotten to tell her about the contact message. "Banjo" won't be here for another hour and a half, she continued.
"Then you must give him this piece of paper. I cannot wait. I have another meeting and must return to Arras to organise the journey. Goodbye - and please don't forget!"
I went to the café at about 18h30. Nini gave me a torn-off page from a notebook on which I read: "I come on behalf of Duval N° 315. I bring 10 here, tomorrow morning 8 April between 6h30 and 7h". I only had to obey and act quickly.
As an aside, my father, with Paul LEMAIRE, a wines and spirits dealer in Frévent, drove his truck, complete with a legal Ausweis, and collected the airmen from the south of the sector. I took the van from the "Mercier" garage, which was also authorized to circulate and drove with Roger, son of the mechanic, to collect those lodged in the northern part of sector. At 9 am, the ten airmen, English, American, Canadian and New Zealand, were gathered in the back kitchen of Nini's house: checking their forged identity papers, reminding them to be careful, and distributing them among the "landlords fréventins" to spend the night of 7/8 April: two to stay with Nini, two to go to Mrs Alice COQUIDE, two with Suzanne LOUIS, two with Robert MONCOMBLE, and the last two with Nini's brother, Julien LEFEBVRE whose 17 year old daughter Pierrette, gave up her bed to occupy a very small room above the café.
On 8 April, from 6 o'clock in the morning, eight of the airmen were gathered in the same back room of the café. The other two airmen, who were lodged opposite with Mrs. COQUIDE, would only come out as we left. There was one last drink before leaving thanks to some bottles being skilfully withdrawn from the "Contrôle de Ravitaillement" (supply control) by Paul LEMAIRE, our wine and spirits merchant, and kind convoyeur.
At 6h40, a truck belonging to "Etablissements Dreux" of ARRAS pulled up to the kerb. The convoyeur quickly got out. From the kitchen where she was doing the washing up, Nini recognized the man from the day before. He entered the café and said to my father, who had already gathered the eight airmen for a quick loading.
"Hello! It is ready? Very good! You did good work, let's get on with it.
- Would you like something to drink? asked my father
- No! I am in a hurry. Help me to get them on board!"
The back of the truck was lowered: 3 benches were installed; 8 airmen got into the truck.
"There are two missing" remarked the conveyor as he began closing the back of the truck. At that moment the last two, who had been staying with Mrs COQUIDE, arrived with her without it being seen exactly where they came from. A few seconds to settle down and the truck started up the Rue de Doullens, carrying ten allied airmen excited by the hope of soon being able to get back to the fight for freedom.
Nini then got back to business in the house while her husband took advantage of the early hour to go and give Paul LEMAIRE a hand to reload his truck which, the previous evening, had had its racks removed and been used to transport the airmen. Half an hour later and everything was back in place. Hardly had the last racks been replaced when they were amazed to see the same "Etablissements Dreux" truck, preceded by a black "traction-avant", coming slowly back down the Rue de Doullens: Gestapo and Feldgendarmes stopped at number 33 and immediately surround the house. Some entered the café and went into the kitchen, surprising Nini who, finished with the washing up, was getting herself ready for the day.
"Go quickly! Get some clothes and personal things. The so-called hard-man résistant, the contact from the day before, was in fact a Gestapo agent.
- Where is your husband? Where is "Banjo"?
- I don't know, I haven't seen him since yesterday evening".
Rather carelessly, the Germans searched all over the house, fortunately without finding the indentity cards, the work permits or the seal of the town hall of VAULX, used for finishing off the forged identity papers, which were all carefully hidden in one of the stairs of the attic.
Pierrette, drawn roughly from bed by a Feldgendarme, broke down in tears.
"What are you doing here?
- I work in the factory and I sleep here. Can I get dressed to go to work? she asked while still crying.
- Go on, hurry up!"
Ouf ! (sic) Pierrette was free.
For Nini the business was more serious. Bullied roughly on several occasions, savagely knocked about and with her face injured from a violent shove against a cupboard door, she was taken, her bloody face framed by two Gestapo agents, and immediately put into the traction-avant.
"And now, tell us where your husband works
- The "Routes et Bâtiments du Nord" shop in Rue Briand, she whispered". She wasn't worried though because she knew for sure that my father had gone to Mr Paul LEMAIRE's house. Which is how he miraculously escaped arrest.
Unable to leave immediately from 82 Rue de Doullens, where my young wife and I were staying at the time, we hastily gathered all the documents and compromising things and hid them in a place in Frévent where they would be safe from the Gestapo for a while. In spite of the Germans blocking all the exits from the town, we managed to leave Frévent at about 11 am and get to a secure hiding place (une planque sûre) at Bouquemaison, hidden in the back of the small truck belonging to my brother-in-law Joseph RAIMBAULT, who managed to leave town by a side road, but was later stopped by two German soldiers.
As for Nini, after having once again denied knowing where her husband and son were, she joined the ten allied airmen at the German camp of Bonnières-Beauvoir. They were all taken, securely guarded, in the same German truck, by the Lille Gestapo and put into the German section of LOOS-les-Lille prison. Confronted with Nini, the ten airmen immediately claimed absolutely not to know her. A little later during an air raid of the prison they all managed to escape, several of groups of them even succeeded in returning to the homes which had sheltered them.
As the only person held by the Gestapo at Lille, Nini, resisted the tough physical and mental abuses inflicted by the torturers during four terrible interrogations, without revealing anything about the résistant activities of the sector. She restricted herself to a very simple defense of including the German agent who had come to the café as witness, and who worked with the interrogators.
"I do not know anything of all that. For a long time now I haven't concerned myself with what my husband and my son do. I have to work hard enough to serve my customers and maintain the house. This man can tell you: I did not understand anything that he told me and I had just got up when your police arrested me". The Gestapo asked in vain, despite the methods used, to get from her the exact address of the house opposite where the last two airmen had come from.
During the 4th interrogation, by now exhausted, she was knocked down by a kick, perhaps a little more violent than the others, which burst the scar left by an operation undergone a few years earlier for an extra-uterine pregnancy. Sent to the infirmary she was surprisingly well cared for by a surgeon and nurse from the German medical branch of the prison.
Convalescing and somewhat forgotten in the infirmary, with her torturers by then more concerned by the rout of the German army in Normandy, Nini was released just before the arrival of the English army liberators, to find that 33 Rue de Doullens in FREVENT was a cluster of rubble and that her house and "estaminet" had been destroyed in the air raids of July 1944.
Rehoused in the "grand baraquement provisoire" (provisional housing) at the Place du Marché, Nini died at 52 years old in 1950, victim of cancer of the womb. The blows received in 1944 probably didn't help.
Thank you mother! from us all, and more particularly from my wife and me, to have kept silent.
A Frévent le 30 Avril 1984
René GUITTARD