207032 Daphne Joan Tuyl British Underground My Mother, Daphne Joan Tuyl, organised the first British underground in Algiers and used to visit the prisoners at Laghouat to obtain information which she passed on to the secret service. She was ideally suited as her father was chaplain to the Fleet before the war and his widow, my grandmother, lived in Algiers. My mother's husband at this time was a Dutch national who before the war farmed a small oasis with my mother called Cora near Biskra in the desert. When war started, although a pacifist, he went back to fight for his country. My mother moved into her mother's apartment with my two brothers where she was approached by the British Consul to collect information. I also have a set of colour prints of drawings done by one of the inmates. She was awarded the King George the Fifth Medal for Courage and the Médaille de la France libérée.
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