Occupation hero seeks old friends
Saturday 15th April 2006, 12:00AM BST.
A HERO of the Occupation is coming home and he wants to catch up with old friends.
Leonard Le Poidevin escaped to France in October 1944 along with Frank Bonney and Dennis Roe.
They set off from Le Hocq in a small dingy and were picked up by the Americans on the French coast.
His fellow escapees are no longer alive.
Mr Le Poidevin is in poor health and spoke through his wife, Margaret, from his home in Chester.
She said her husband wanted to visit the Island, possibly for Liberation Day.
‘I want to take him home because he has not been back for 17 years and he is not in the best of health,’ she said.
Little is documented about Mr Le Poidevin’s escape, other than a mention in Occupation historian Joe Mière’s exhibition at the Jersey War Tunnels, which also features a photograph of him with Mr Bonney and Mr Roe.
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