SIS Potier, Dominique Edgard Antoine

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Potier ​

• FORENAME

Dominique Edgard Antoine ​

• UNIT

MI9 ​

• RANK

Major ​

• NUMBER

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• DATE OF DEATH

11th January 1944 ​

• AGE

40 ​

• GRAVESITE

Brussels-Evere Cemetery,Belgium La Pelouse d'Honneur des Aviateurs Belge Plot IV Grave 35 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve​

born 2.11.1903 Seraing-sur-Meuse,Liege,Belgium​

Second Lieutenant,Belgian Artillery​

married Ida Clementine Martin 25.7.1928 (1 daughter)​

graduated Free University of Brussels 1935​

7e Escadrille,Belgian Air Force (Capitaine-Commandant) 1940​

to England 26.3.1942​

R.A.F.V.R./MI9​

lived with Marjorie Amis,Bromley Road,Beckenham,Kent (1 son born 28.1.1943)​

dropped Belgian Ardennes July 1943​

alias Commandant Nollet or Martin​

Possum Escape Line​

to England 16.11.1943​

to France 20.12.1943​

arrested January 1944​

threw himself from window during Gestapo interrogation​

died 3 hours later in hospital at rue Cognacq-Jay 43,Reims,France​

originally buried Cimitiere du Sud de Reims​

reburied 18.9.1950 ​

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