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WW2 RAF Escaping Society RARE Marie Lindell Resistance signed cover SC28 25th Anniversary of the RAF Escaping Society. Gertrude Mary Lindell (11 September 1895 - 8 January 1987),[1] Comtesse de Milleville, code named Marie-Claire and Comtesse de Moncy, was an English woman, a front-line nurse in World War I and a member of the French Resistance in World War II. She founded and led an escape and evasion organization, the Marie-Claire Line, helping Allied airmen and soldiers escape from occupied France. The airmen were survivors of military airplanes shot down over occupied Europe. During the course of the war, Lindell was run over by an automobile, shot in the head, imprisoned twice, and captured and sent to Ravensbruck camp in Germany. Her son Maurice was captured and tortured. She is credited with helping about 100 Allied airmen escape from France. Lindell was awarded the Croix de Guerre twice, once for her work in World War I and once for World War II.