War-hero eye surgeon dies at 94

Charles Schepens, a wartime French Resistance hero who later became a pioneer in retina surgery, has died at the age of 94 after suffering a stroke.

The Belgian-born doctor, who trained at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital before the war, assumed an alias while working with the Resistance in France in 1942 and 1943 that was so successful he fooled both the Nazis and his French neighbours.