by Noreen Riols
Carter
Charles Henri Lucien – organizer
Chestnut
†Roland Dowlen – wireless operator
†William Grover-Williams – organizer
Cinema
†Emile Henri Garry – organizer
†Noor Inayat-Khan – wireless operator
Clergyman
†Robert Benoist – organizer
†Denise Bloch – wireless operator, 1943–1945
Louis Blondet – instructor
Delegate
†J. T. J. M. Detal – organizer
†P. F. Duclos
Detective
†Denise Bloch – wireless operator, 1943–1945
Blanche Charlet – courier
Henri Sevenet (aka Henry Thomas) – organizer
Brian Stonehouse – wireless operator
Digger
Jacques Poirier – organizer
Ditcher
Guy D’Artois – organizer
†Jean Renaud
Donkeyman
Rolf Baumann – teacher
†Jean Dubois – wireless operator
Francis Cammaerts
†Henri Frager – organizer
Peggy Knight – courier
†A. R. Lansdell
Vera Leigh – liaison officer
†E. Levene
Farmer
Arthur Staggs – wireless operator
†Michael Trotobas – organizer
Farrier
Juliane Aisner – courier
Marcel Remy Clement – assistant
Henri Déricourt – organizer
Andre Watt – wireless operator
Fireman
Edmund Mayer – organizer
Percy Mayer – organizer
Footman
George Hiller – organizer
Freelance
John D. Allsop – instructor
Andre Michael Bloch – instructor
Rene Dussaq – assistant
John Farmer – organizer
Denis Rake – wireless operator
Reeve Schley
Nancy Wake – courier
Gamekeeper
†Jack Agazarian – wireless operator
Gondolier
†P. F. M. Sarrette – organizer
Headmaster
†F. E. Bee
Charles Sydney ‘Soapy’ Hudson – organizer
Heckler
Paul Goillot – organizer
Henry Riley – organizer
Historian
Nicholas Allington – assistant
†Jean Renaud-Dandicolle (or John Danby)
†Liliane Rolfe – wireless operator
André Studler – assistant
†George Alfred ‘Teddy’ Wilkinson – organizer
Inventor
†Marcel Clech – wireless operator
†Sidney Jones – organizer and arms instructor
†Vera Leigh – courier
Jockey
Francis Cammaerts – organizer
Leslie Fernandez
Xan Fielding
Auguste Floiras – wireless operator
Christine Granville – courier
†Cecily Lefort – courier
Pierre Martinot – instructor
Pierre Reynaud – sabotage instructor
Antoine Sereni – wireless operator
Juggler
†Jean Worms (or Jean de Verieux) – organizer
Labourer
†E. A. L. Allard
†P. A. H. Geelen
†Maurice Larcher – wireless operator
Marcel Leccia (or Georges Louis) – organizer
Lackey
A. Beauregard
Liontamer
†D. H. Finlayson
†M. A. Lepage – organizer
†E. Lesout
Marksman
Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester – courier
Richard Harry Heslop – organizer
Owen Johnson – wireless operator
Gordon Nornable – wireless operator
Geoffrey Parker – medic
Jean Pierre Rosenthal – organizer
Marcel Veilleux – wireless operator
Minister
†Denis Barrett – wireless operator
†P. L. Mulsant – organizer
Monkeypuzzle or Monk
Marcel Clech – wireless operator
†Eliane Plewman – courier
†Jack Sinclair
† Charles Skepper – organizer
† Arthur Steele – wireless operator
Musician
†Yolande Beekman – wireless operator
†Gustave (Guy) Bieler – organizer
†G. B. McBain
†Paul Tessier – assistant
Orator
†J. P. H. Ledoux – organizer
Parson
†G. Clement
†H. H. Gaillot
Pedlar
Nicholas Bodington – organizer
Phono
†F. A. Deniset
Pimento
Anthony Brooks – organizer
Permit
Gerard Dedieu – organizer
Physician
Francine Agazarian – courier
Jack Agazarian – wireless operator
†J. F. Amps
†Andrée Borrel – courier
Jacques Bureau – radio technician
Pierre Culioli – organizer
George Darling – group leader
†Gilbert Norman – wireless operator
†Yvonne Rudellat – courier
†Francis Suttill – organizer
Germaine Tambour
Madeleine Tambour
Playwright
†E. G. J. Duboudin – organizer
Priest
† A. Defendini – organizer
†R. Sabourin
Privet
†E. M. Wilkinson – organizer
Prunus
†M. R. Bloom
†M. Pertschuk – organizer
Publican
†M. G. F. Fox – organizer
Redwood
†B. D. Rafferty
Reporter
†C. M. Jumeau – organizer
Rover
†J. A. Mayer
†C. Rechenmann – organizer
Salesman
Edgar Fraser – Dakota expert
Jean Claude Guiet – wireless operator
Philippe Liewer (aka Charles Staunton) – organizer
Bob Maloubier – weapons instructor
†Claude Malraux
†Isidore Newman – wireless operator
†Violette Szabo – courier
Satirist
†Marcel Defence – wireless operator
†A. de Montalembert
†O. A. G. Simon – organizer
Scholar
Raymond Aubin – organizer
Yvonne Baseden – wireless operator
Rene Bichelot – assistant
Louis Antoine Nonni
†Marie Joseph de Saint-Geniès – organizer
Gonzague de Saint-Geniès – organizer
Scientist
Claude de Baissac – organizer
Lise de Baissac – courier
André Grandclément – organizer double agent
†Victor Hayes – instructor
Mary Katherine Herbert – courier
Roger Landes – wireless operator
†Maurice Larcher – wireless operator
Phyliss Latour – wireless operator
†Paul Baptiste Pardi – landing grounds
Harry Peulevé
†Jean Renaud-Dandicolle (or John Danby)
Scullion II
†P. J. Amphlett
†G. W. H. Demand
†H. H. Graham
†D. W. Sibrée
†V. A. Soskice
Shipwright
Amédée (Dédé) Mainguard – organizer
†A. Schwatschko
Spindle
Peter Churchill – organizer
André Girard
Victor Hazan
Adolphe Rabinovitch – wireless operator
Odette Sansom – courier
Spiritualist
Henri Diacono – wireless operator
René Dumont-Guillemet – organizer
†Paul Tessier – assistant
Spruce or Plane
Robert Boiteaux – organizer
Henri Paul Le Chêne – organizer
Stationer
Jacques Dufour
Amédée (Dédé) Mainguard – organizer
†René Mathieu – wireless operator
Pierre Mattei – landing grounds
Jacqueline Nearne – courier
†A. Schwatschko
Alexander Shaw – landing grounds
Maurice Southgate – organizer
Pearl Witherington – courier; organizer following Southgate’s arrest of Wrestler
Stockbroker
†Eric Cauchi – instructor
Joseph Maetz Harry Ree – organizer
†Diana Rowden – courier
†Jean Alexander Simon
†Paul Ullman – wireless operator
Surveyor
†R. E. J. Alexandre – organizer
†R. B. Byerly
Tinker
Benny Cowburn – organizer
†E. M. Wilkinson
Tobacconist
†J. T. Hamilton – sole member
Ventriloquist
†Muriel Byck – wireless operator
Emile Counasse
Maurice Lostrie – saboteur
†Stanislaw Makowski – instructor
Pierre de Vomécourt – organizer
Verger
†Maurice Larcher – wireless operator
†Jean Renaud-Dandicolle (or John Danby) – organizer
Wheelwright
Jean-Claude Arnault – assistant
Yvonne Cormeau – wireless operator
Philippe de Gunzbourg – courier
George Reginald Starr – organizer
Anne-Marie Walters – courier
Wizard
Eileen (Didi) Nearne – wireless operator
Jean Savy – organizer
Wrestler
Pearl Witherington – organizer
† – killed or executed while on a mission
Endnote
1. In June 1944 a group of French résistants disguised as Milice marched into the Propaganda Ministry in the rue Solferino in Paris – now the HQ of the French Socialist Party – and shot Philippe Henriot dead as he reached the bottom of the stairs. Rumour has it that this murder was orchestrated by SOE and carried out by an SOE agent. But the rumour has never been confirmed.
Noreen Riols was born in Malta of English parents, and lives with her French husband in a seventeenth-century house in a village near Versailles. After the war, she joined the BBC, where she met her husband, a journalist with the World Service. She is the author of ten books, published in Britain, Germany, Holland, Norway and the US. She has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and for several years contributed features from Paris to Woman’s Hour. She is an experienced public speaker with an impressive list of credits to her name and has also broadcast on radio and television programmes across the world.
Also by Noreen Riols
Eye of the Storm
My Unknown Child
Only the Best
When Suffering Comes
Laura
Katharine
To Live Again
Before the Dawn
Where Love Endures
First published 2013 by Macmillan
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