Dominic Sandbrook

I mean, yeah.

And I suppose if you smell very... Yeah, horrible.

Violently a fish, people won't approach you.

So he got to Holland, he went home, he came back to France, and he ended up winning a medal in 1917.

So that was nice.

So this is the beginning of Edith Cavell's connections with the Belgian resistance.

Now, I mentioned, we mentioned the occupation.

The Belgian resistance is not one big organized group.

I mean, this isn't the case with all resistance groups, really.

It's basically about 300 different kind of interlocking groups that attract both men and women.

They're very informal.

You kind of come and go.

And they do some sabotage acts, but by and large, what the Belgian resistance largely do is they distribute underground newspapers and pamphlets, and they get intelligence on what the Germans are up to.

So German troop movements, and they send it across the border to the Allies.

And the other thing, of course, they do, which these two blokes have just been the beneficiaries of, they smuggle Allied soldiers to safety, because there's a lot of Allied soldiers that have been left behind enemy lines during the chaotic retreat at the end of 1914.

And so through her friend Marie Depage, the daughter of top Belgian Dr. Antoine Depage,

Edith is now connected to one of these resistance groups.

And this is a resistance group that has very aristocratic leanings because it is centered on Prince Reginald de Croix and his sister, Princess Marie.

And the Croix, the House of Croix, a kind of Belgian aristocratic house, dates back, I read, to medieval Burgundy.

Are they members of the Golden Fleece?