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Born in London, England of Scottish ancestry, Lefort lived on the coast of Brittany in France from the age of 24 with her French husband, Dr. Alex Lefort. When World War II broke out she fled occupied France and went to England where she and her husband made their home in Brittany available for the underground resistance to use as part of an escape line for downed British airmen and others needing to get out of occupied France. The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Scottish Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Traditional coat of arms This article is about the historical duchy and French province, as well as the cultural area of Brittany. ... The UR logo Underground Resistance (commonly abbreviated to UR) are a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. ...

In 1941, Lefort joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force. The following year, as someone fluent in the French language, she volunteered to serve with the F Section (France) of the Special Operations Executive based in London. On the night of June 16, 1943, together with fellow SOE agents Diana Rowden and Noor Inayat Khan, she was flown to Le Mans in France. Trained as a courier, once there she was sent to south eastern France where she worked for the "Jockey" network run by Francis Cammaerts. 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Womens Auxiliary Air Force was created by the British military in June of 1939. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Diana Hope Rowden (January 31, 1915 - July 6, 1944) was an SOE member who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp. ... Noor Inyat Khan (January 1, 1914 - September 11, 1944) was born of an Indian father (Inayat Khan) and an American mother (Ora Ray Baker, who was a relative of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science). ... Le Mans is a city in France, located at the Sarthe River. ... Francis Cammaerts was a very successful SOE agent in German occupied France during World War II, responsible for setting up and organising Resistance forces reputed to be of the magnitude of 10,000. ...

On September 15, 1943, while meeting with a contact in the city of Montélimar in the southerly département of Rhône-Alpes, Lefort was arrested by the Gestapo. After being subjected to a ruthless interrogation and torture, she was sent north to the Fresnes prison in Paris. Then, a few months later in early 1944, she was shipped to Ravensbrück concentration camp about 50 miles from Berlin. Ravensbrück had a gas chamber and crematorium, and at the end of 1944, knowing defeat was imminent, the place became a frantic killing center. September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... Montélimar is a commune of southern France, in the Drôme département. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Capital Lyon Area 43,698 km² Regional President Jean-Jack Queyranne (PS) (since 2004) Population   - 2004 estimate   - 1999 census   - Density (Ranked 2nd) 5,893,000 5,645,407 135/km² (2004) Arrondissements 25 Cantons 335 Communes 2,879 Départements Ain Ardèche Drôme Isère Loire Rhône... The Deaths Head emblem, often used as the insignia of the Gestapo The   Gestapo? (acronym of Geheime Staatspolizei; secret state police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ... Fresnes Prison (Maison darrêt de Fresnes) is the largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne near the city of Paris. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... View of the barracks at Ravensbrück Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp located 90 km north of Berlin. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... A gas chamber is a means of execution whereby a poisonous gas is introduced into a hermetically sealed chamber. ... Cremation is the practice of disposing of a corpse by burning. ...

Held in a prison with 30,000 women and children, on her prison uniform Lefort had to wear the red triangle patch identifying her as a resistance worker. Living in subhuman conditions, every day the prisoners were made to toil for hours doing such things as paving the streets by pulling a huge iron roller. Suffering from extreme malnutrition and exhaustion, Lefort was deemed by the Germans to no longer be of any value and she was gassed on May 1, 1945. May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

At Ravensbrück were three other female members of the SOE who were also executed: Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe, and Violette Szabo. Denise Madeleine Bloch, born in 1915 in France - died February 5, 1945 in Ravensbrück, Germany, was a heroine of World War II. From a Jewish family, by the middle of 1942 in occupied France they were being rounded up by the Gestapo. ... -1... Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, G.C., M.B.E., CdG (June 26, 1921 – February 5?, 1945) was a World War II secret agent. ...

Lefort was honored by the government of France with a posthumous Croix de Guerre. She is recorded on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England, and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, she is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre departément of France. The Croix de guerre is a military decoration of both Belgium and France which was first created in 1915. ... Detail from the Magna Carta Memorial Map sources for Runnymede at grid reference: SU 998 727 Runnymede is a water meadow alongside the River Thames in the English county of Surrey. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. ... The Valençay SOE Memorial is a monument to the members of the Special Operations Executive F Section who lost their lives for the liberation of France. ... Chateau Valençay Valençay is a small town amd commune in the Indre département in the Loire Valley of France situated on a hillside overlooking the Nahon river. ... Indre is a département in the center of France named after the Indre River. ...