41 Woman Agents entered France covertly assisting the resistance and causing considerable damage to the German war effort 16 DID NOT RETURN Here are those brave woman who worked for the Special Operations Executive and gave their lives for us.
Entered France: 18 September 1943, Lysander Aeroplane
Yolande Beekman MiD French Code name: Yvonne: Executed at Dachau, Sept 13, 1944.
Entered France: 2 March 1944, Lysander Aeroplane
Denise Bloch KCBC, LdH, CdeG French Code name: Ambroise; Executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp February 5, 1945.
Entered France:
8 April 1944, Parachute
Muriel Byck MiD English Code name: Violette; Died of meningitis at Romorantin Hospital May 23, 1944.
Entered France: 29 February 1944, Parachute
Madeleine Damerment LdH, CdeG French Code name: Solange; Arrested on landing Executed at Dachau, Sept 13, 1944.
Entered France: 16 June 1943 Lysander Aeroplane
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan GC, MBE, CdeG, MiD Russian Code name: Madeleine; Executed at Dachau September 13, 1944.
Entered France:
23 May 1943, Lysander Aeroplane
Vera Leigh KCBC English Code name: Simone; Executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp July 6, 1944.
Recruited in France
Sonia Olschanezky German Code name: Tania; Captured January 1944 Executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp on July 6, 1944
Entered France: 13 August 1943, Parachute
Eliane Plewman KCBC, CdeG French Code name; Gaby; Executed at Dachau concentration camp September 13, 1944
Entered France:
5 April 1944 Lysander Aeroplane
Lilian Rolfe MBE, CdeG, MiD French Code name: Nadine Executed 5 February 1945 at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Entered France: 16 June 1943 Lysander Aeroplane
Diana Rowden MBE, CdeG, MiD English Code name: Paulette; Executed 6 July 1944 Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Entered France: 30 July 1942 By Boat
Yvonne Rudellat MBE French Code name: Jacqueline; Died of Typhus Bergen-Belsen concentration camp c. 24 Apr 1945.
Entered France:
24 September 1942 Parachute
Andrée Borrel CdeG Code name: Denise; Executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, July 6, 1944.
Entered France: 16 June 1943, Lysander Aeroplane
Cecily Lefort CdeG, MiD English Code name: Alice; Executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp c. February 5, 1945.
Killed on her way there by boat.
Madeleine Barclay French Died when HMS Fidelity was sunk on January 1, 1943
Entered France:
5 April 1944, Parachute 7 June 1944, Parachute
Violette Szabo GC, CdeG French Code name: Louise; Executed c. 5 Feb 1945 at Ravensbrück
Entered France: 23 May 1944 Parachute
Madeleine Lavigne Code name: Isabelle; Died in Paris of an embolism on February 24, 1945.
