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Obituary: Pierre Holmes

Saturday 01 January 1994 00:02 GMT
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Pierre Holmes, died L'Isle-sur-la- Sorgue, France, 7 December, aged 81. During the Second World War he broadcast messages on the BBC to the French resistance: between 1942 and 1944 he had a daily 15-minute programme reading out coded messages for groups on parachute drops of arms and troops.

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