Escape Lines Memorial

The Escape Lines Home Run Memorial

The Escape Lines Memorial Society – Home Run Memorial Stone. This stone came from a quarry near the Pyrenees in France where those escaping were hidden before being led over the border into Spain and then onto Gibraltar.
www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/279212
The Granite “Home Run” tablet set into the Stone. During WWII a secret service department was established to bring back Allied servicemen from behind enemy lines. This was known as Military Intelligence 9 (MI9).
  • Memorial Text
  • Escape Lines Home Run Memorial Stone
  • During WW2, a network of escape lines were formed across the continent of Europe, in order to assist allied personnel and other fugitives, who found themselves trapped in occupied country, behind enemy lines.
  • The ‘helpers’ of these lines worked selflessly as guides and couriers for the ‘evaders’. If captured the ‘helpers’ faced torture, incarceration in concentration camps, and death; the escapers or evaders caught with them would be sent to Prisoner of War Camps. For each evader returned to Great Britain, many ‘helpers’ sacrificed their lives of freedom.
  • This memorial rock was hewn from a quarry in the High Pyrenees, which is owned by a family of former mountain guides and donated as a memorial to all who travelled the Escape Lines of WW2.
  • Further Information
  • We Remember – WW2 Escape Lines Memorial Society.

Page Updated 21st March 2026.