On the grounds of the Eden Camp Modern History Museum which is a former WW2 POW camp.

A Pyrennees Mountain rock with a inscribned marble plaque attached to the front.

The Helpers Monument remembers people who aided military stranded behind enemy lines escape to friendly lines and was placed by the WW2 Escape Lines Memorial Society

The WW2 Escape Lines Memorial Society is dedicated to the helpers, escapers and evaders who organised or relied upon escape lines across mainland Europe during the Second World War. Our aim is to preserve and commemorate the memory of those helpersindividuals and families who risked everything to guide Allied servicemen home. Without them, countless airmen and soldiers stranded behind enemy lines would not have returned to continue the fight for freedom. Helpers aided Allies of many nationalities, to include Americans, by sheltering, feeding, nursing and guiding themoften at great cost to themselves and their families. Many paid with their lives for their acts of humanity toward strangers.

Some American Operators and helpers (and a link to their biography on this website):

- Virginia Caroline (Roush) dAlbert-Lake (also known as Virginia),   https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php ?PeopleID=31804

- Vladimir Pavlovich Buryshkin (also spelled Bouryshkine, also known as Val Williams or codename Guillaume),    https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=42354

- Roberta Betty (Laurie) Countess de Mauduit,   https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=42426

- Virginia (Goillot) Hall, Pat Line, SOE/OSS agent, https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=34521

For more on the WW2 Escape Lines Memorial Society, see their website: https://ww2escapelines.co.uk

Source of informtion and photos: https://ww2escapelines.co.uk

The helper memorial

is dedicated to the countless brave helpers of the occupied countries in world war two (1939 - 1945) of all nationalities and faiths who assisted British and allies escapers and evaders to return to Great Britain and so continue the common fight for freedom.

We remember