Notable Members
- Andrée de Jongh organized the Comet Line (Komeet Lijn - Le Reseau Comète) for escaped Allied soldiers. Albert Guérisse organized escape routes for downed Allied pilots under the alias of Patrick Albert "Pat" O'Leary; his escape line was dubbed the Pat Line.
- Andrée "Nadine" Dumon OBE helped rescue 27 Allied fliers and worked as a courier for the resistance. Baron Georges Schnek, operating mainly in France and who was Jewish, helped provide false ID papers and ration coupons to fleeing Jewish families.
- Georges Schoeters, co-founder and member of the FLQ, worked as a courier towards the end of the war until he was captured by the Nazis.
- Jean ("Johnny") Voste, the one documented black prisoner at Dachau concentration camp, was a Belgian resistance fighter from the Congo; he was arrested in 1942 for alleged sabotage, and was one of the survivors of Dachau.
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