1. Brian Julian Warry Stonehouse MBE was an English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.
10 Facts About Brian Stonehouse
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Brian Stonehouse was born in Torquay, England and had a brother, Dale.
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On 1 July 1942, Brian Stonehouse parachuted into occupied France near the city of Tours in the Loire Valley.
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Brian Stonehouse's radio got caught in a tree and he spent five nights in the forest before he could get it down.
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Brian Stonehouse spent a brief time in a Luftwaffe factory camp in Vienna.
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Brian Stonehouse saved his own life by drawing sketches for the camp commandant, guards and their families.
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In 1985, Brian Stonehouse painted a poignant watercolour of the four women from memory which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London.
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From Natzweiler-Struthof, Brian Stonehouse was sent to the Dachau concentration camp from where he was liberated by US troops on 29 April 1945.
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Whilst operating in France Brian Stonehouse continued to sketch and draw people he came across.
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Brian Stonehouse was on several occasions told not to carry his sketch books with him whilst 'on duty'.