Foreign Office: Claims Department: Correspondence and Claims Files
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Odette, 1912-1995
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Lieutenant Officer Odette Marie Celine Sansom (nee Brailly), Women's Transport Service (FANY)/Special Operations Executive (SOE, F Section), was born in France on 28 April 1912. In 1931, she married an Englishman and came to live in Britain. She was recruited by SOE in the spring of 1942 and, after training, was sent to Vichy France in October. In April 1943 she and her colleague Peter Churchill were arrested. Despite prolonged interrogation and torture, she refused to reveal any information. Af...
Damerment, Madeleine, 1917-1944
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Madeleine Damerment was born in Lille, France. Following the German Occupation of France, Madeleine joined the Resistance she was actively involved in an escape route to send downed R.A.F Air Crews back to England. In England, Madeleine joined the French Section of the Special Operations Executive. On the night of the 28th February 1944 she was parachuted into a field near Chartres in France. Unfortunately she had been betrayed and the Gestapo were waiting for her, she was captured and taken to ...
Rolfe, Lilian, 1914-1945
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Lilian Rolfe was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organisation in France during World War II. Rolfe was a wireless operator for the Historian Network based in Orleans. After four months of work in France, she was captured by the Germans on 31 July 1944. She was executed in Ravensbrück concentration camp in late January 1945....
Szabo, Violette, 1921-1945
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Violette Szabo was a British-French Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed....
Khan, Noor Inayat, 1914-1944
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Noor Inayat Khan was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). As an SOE agent under the codename Madeleine she became the first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during World War II. Inayat Khan was betrayed and captured, and executed at Dachau concentration camp. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service, the highest civilian decoration for gallan...
Nearne, Eileen, 1921-2010
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Eileen Mary Nearne was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during World War II....
Rowden, Diana Hope, 1915-1944
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Diana Hope Rowden (31 January 1915 – 6 July 1944) served in the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force 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 in occupied France where she operated as a courier until she was arrested by the Gestapo. She was subsequently executed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp....
Lefort, Cecily Margot, 1900-1945
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Cecily Lefort (30 April 1899 – February 1945) served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. Lefort arrived in France in June 1943 and was a courier. She was arrested by the Gestapo in September 1943 and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was later executed....