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36: 259:, where he is one of 4 members of SOE to be listed. In Guelph, there’s a park named after him with a maple tree representing his time in Canada, an oak his British sojourn, and a linden his time in France. The University of Toronto has designated a Pickersgill-Macalister garden on the west side of the "Soldiers' Tower" monument. 186:, and after Rudellat and Culioli were cleared they decided to wait for the two Canadians to come through. Minutes later, however, the Canadians' cover was blown and Culioli tried to speed away but he and Rudellat were captured when they ran into another checkpoint about 10 kilometres away. Rudellat subsequently died in 154:
when World War II began in 1939. When he took the bar exam, Macalister placed first among over 150 candidates in the British Empire. Macalister tried to join the infantry but his eyesight was such that he needed thick glasses and as such could not be placed on active duty. However, fluent in
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where they were interrogated and tortured repeatedly. Macalister steadfastly refused to reveal his security checks to the Germans who had his codes and were anxious to send misleading messages back to the
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until 1939, graduating with one of the six first-class honours degrees awarded in a cohort of 200.
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A first-hand account can be found in the letters of Frank Pickersgill, selected and published as
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Unable to get anything of value from him, the security forces shipped Macalister, along with
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Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation
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He was expanding his education further at the Institute of Corporate Law in
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département of France. He is commemorated by an obelisk at
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and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of
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Canadian people who died in Buchenwald concentration camp
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group, executed at Buchenwald on September 14, 1944.
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Canadian people executed in Nazi concentration camps
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His story, and that of Frank Pickersgill is told in
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