Robert Benoist [SEP] place of death
from October 1943 to February 1944, after which he returned to London for a short time before going back to France in March to work in the Nantes area with fellow SOE agent Denise Bloch.
Benoist was arrested on 18 June 1944 and shipped to Buchenwald concentration camp where he was executed three months later, on 9 September.
Testimony.
Following Germany's surrender, on 9 September 1945, the ""Coupe Robert Benoist"" automobile race was held in Paris in his memory.
Captain Robert Benoist is
was established.
July 26, 1925 (Sunday).
- The French team of Robert Benoist and Albert Divo won the 1925 French Grand Prix, though the race was marred by the death of Antonio Ascari.
- Petrovsky Stadium opened in Leningrad.
- Born: Joseph Engelberger, physicist, engineer and entrepreneur ; Ana María Matute, Spanish writer (d. 2014)
- Died: Antonio Ascari, 36, Italian race car driver (crashed while leading the French Grand Prix); William Jennings Bryan,