Madeleine Zoe Damerment (11 November 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a French spy in World War II who served in the French Resistance and Britain's Special Operations Executive. Damerment was to be a courier for SOE's Bricklayer circuit in France during World War II but was arrested upon arrival by the Gestapo, who knew she was coming. She was subsequently …

Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially those …

Early life. Atkins was born Vera May Rosenberg in Galați, Kingdom of Romania, to Max Rosenberg (d. 1932), a German-Jewish father, and his British-Jewish wife, Zefra Hilda, known as Hilda (d. 1947). She had two brothers. Atkins briefly attended the Sorbonne in Paris to study modern languages and a finishing school at Lausanne, where she indulged her passion for …

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) (FANY (PRVC)) is a British independent all-female registered charity formed in 1907 and active in both nursing and intelligence work during the World Wars. Its members wear a military-style uniform, but it is not part of the Regular Army or Army Reserve; members do not train at Sandhurst, nor do they …

Le Special Operations Executive (SOE, « Direction des opérations spéciales ») est un service secret britannique qui opère pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Le SOE est créé le 19-22 juillet 1940 par Winston Churchill et dissous le 30 juin 1946.Il a pour mission de soutenir les divers mouvements de résistance des pays d'Europe occupés par l'Allemagne et l'Italie et, …

Noor Un Nisa Inayat Khan, née le 1 er janvier 1914 au Kremlin de Moscou en Russie et morte le 13 septembre 1944 au camp de Dachau en Allemagne, est un agent secret britannique du Special Operations Executive (SOE), section F, qui se distingua durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Premier agent féminin à être envoyé en France comme opérateur radio, elle rejoignit …

Madeleine Damerment (1917–1944), SOE operative: Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre, Médaille combattant volontaire de la Résistance; Marie Louise Dissard (1880–1957), U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; William Grover-Williams (1903–1945), SOE operative, champion race car driver; Cecily Lefort (1900–1945), SOE operative: Croix ...

Die Special Operations Executive (deutsch Spezialeinsatztruppe) war eine britische nachrichtendienstliche Spezialeinheit während des Zweiten Weltkriegs.Sie wurde Mitte Juli 1940 unter dem Tarnnamen Inter Services Research Bureau auf Anordnung von Premierminister Winston Churchill zur subversiven Kriegsführung ohne direktes militärisches Engagement nach …

Madeleine Damerment (1917–1944), French Resistance fighter, Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre, Médaille de la Résistance; Pierre Joseph Duhem (1758–1807), physician and Montagnard; Louis Faidherbe (1818–1889), general, founder of the city of Dakar and senator; Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), general, resistance fighter, President of France

Diana Hope Rowden (31 January 1915 – 6 July 1944) served in the 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 …