Y Z List of female SOE agents SOE F Section networks Timeline of SOE's Prosper Network Baden-Powell, Dorothy (2005). They Also Serve: an SOE agent in the...
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The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to...
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Section of the British Special Operations Executive during World War II. The SOE agents assigned to each network are also listed. SOE agents, with a few...
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for many of SOE's activities in France which was occupied by Nazi Germany. SOE F Section sent about 470 agents to France from 1941 to 1944, of whom about...
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Leicestershire, Oxfordshire. These were SOE's radio stations, established when SOE's signals establishments were separated from that of SIS / GCCS at Bletchley Park...
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Roméo Sabourin (category Canadian Army personnel of World War II)
Netherlands. As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Lieutenant Sabourin is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in...
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Briggens House (category Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Essex)
Executive (SOE) as the main forgery operation to support their secret agents List of SOE agents and undercover special forces. When the house was requisitioned...
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Henri Déricourt (category Double agents)
departure of flights to convey SOE agents back and forth from England to France. Déricourt also acted as a postman, collecting mail and messages from SOE agents...
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Francis Cammaerts (category British Army General List officers)
Cammaerts as one of the half-dozen best male agents. He was one of only three SOE agents to be promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel, along with George Starr and...
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German occupation of France. Prosper soon had links from the "Ardennes to the Atlantic" in northern France with 30 SOE agents and hundreds of French associates...
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Jack Agazarian (category Recipients of the Legion of Honour)
of German Abwehr intelligence in the Netherlands, sent two Dutch agents posing as SOE agents to Paris. The Abwehr agents learned from double agents how...
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Secret Warriors, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) were given a "0" prefix when they became "zero-rated" upon completion of training in how...
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Madeleine Damerment (category Recipients of the Legion of Honour)
reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons...
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Lilian Rolfe (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organisation in France during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to...
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Virginia Hall (category Honorary members of the Order of the British Empire)
the jagged nerves of agents on the run and supervising the distribution of wireless sets." The network (or circuit) of SOE agents she founded was named...
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Carte network (section Carte and SOE)
the British SOE agents working with him, and allowed photographs of the agents to be supplied to Bardet for that purpose. One of the agents was Vera Leigh...
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Vera Leigh (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
1944) was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. Leigh was a member of the SOE's Donkeyman circuit...
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Eliane Plewman (category Female resistance members of World War II)
December 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a British agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and a member of the French Resistance working as a courier...
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Force 136 (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
136 was a far eastern branch of the British World War II intelligence organisation, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Originally set up in 1941 as...
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agent to France. Former SOE agents Pearl Witherington Cornioley and her husband Henri, who lived nearby, promoted the establishment of the memorial. Witherington...
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Yolande Beekman (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
ISBN 978-1-4456-3431-9. Overview of the scores of female SOE agents sent into occupied Europe during WW2 including Borrel. O'Conner, Bernard (2016). Agents Françaises: French...
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Andrée Borrel (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
different agents, again violating SOE doctrine. SOE agents in groups frequented restaurants specializing in black market luxuries. Moreover, a double agent, Henri...
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September 1944) was a British soldier who joined Special Operations Executive (SOE) to operate in occupied France during the Second World War as a wireless...
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George Reginald Starr (category British Army General List officers)
three SOE agents to be promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel, along with Richard Heslop and Francis Cammaerts. One of the French agents of the SOE, Philippe...
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Odette Hallowes (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Germany. SOE agents allied...
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Cecily Lefort (category Female resistance members of World War II)
in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with...
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Pearl Witherington (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
was an agent in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The purpose of SOE was to...
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Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz (category Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Greece))
"THE MOST SECRET LIST OF SOE AGENTS". Retrieved 27 March 2021. "SOE Files". The National Archives. Retrieved 27 March 2021. "Issue of the stamp "Jerzy...
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Diana Rowden (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
and was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. Rowden was a member of SOE's Acrobat circuit...
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Operation Postmaster (category African theatres of World War II)
SOE agents had become aware of three vessels in the port of Santa Isabel on the Spanish island of Fernando Po 30 kilometres (19 mi) off the coast of Africa...
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