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Private Peter Scott Janes has been in the army less than five months when he was sent to France. Within weeks he was taken prisoner at St Valery-en-Ca'ux. Twelve days later he was rescued by two young French girls and for the next sixteen months he lived a clandestine life among the ordinary people of the Pas de Calais. Finally in September 1941 he was taken south to Marseilles by the Organisation and returned to England.

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On 13th November 1939 Peter Scott Janes was a twenty-one year old grocer's assistant working at the International Tea Stores in Esher, Surrey. His main interests up until that time had been girls; one in particular - Miss Gladys Doreen Cooper - with whom he had recently fallen out. Of more immediate concern to him that day though was the receipt of his Military Service Registration Papers - Peter Janes was about to become a soldier. There is no evidence that Peter Janes was ever a hero to anyone except his wife and son, but he intended to write a book called Conscript Heroes , a fictional account based on his experiences in France. Peter died unexpectedly on 3rd March 1998, aged eighty-one, with the book unfinished. Subsequently Peter's son, Keith Janes, has combined his father's diaries with other supporting documents to write a non-fiction book under the original title.

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