Diana Hope Rowden (January 31, 1915 - July 6, 1944) was an SOE member who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp. January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... SOE can stand for: Secret of Evermore, a SNES Computer_role-playing_game from Squaresoft Sony Online Entertainment, a computer game developer Special Operations Executive State-owned enterprise Splicing by Overlapping Extensions This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Born in England, she moved with her family to southern France when she was still a young girl. She attended schools in Saint-Remo and Cannes on the French Riviera, but her family soon returned to England, settling at Hadlow Down, near Mayfield, East Sussex, where she continued her education at Manor House School in Limpsfield, Surrey. Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001... The seaside town of Cannes, in southern France, as seen from a ferry speeding towards lîle Saint Honorat Cannes (Canas in Provençal) (pronounced ) is a city and commune in southern France, located on the Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes département. ... The Promenade des Anglais in Nice on the French Riviera at night. ... Hadlow Down is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. ... Mayfield is a village nine miles south of Tunbridge Wells in East Sussex, England. ... East Sussex is a county in South East England. ... Limpsfield is a pretty village in the east of the county of Surrey, England near Oxted at the foot of the North Downs. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ...

In 1933 she returned again to France to enroll at the Sorbonne before finding employment as a journalist in Paris. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, with the skyscrapers of La Défense business district 5 km/ 3 mi behind. ...

When the war began, she joined the French Red Cross, being assigned to the Anglo-American Ambulance Corps. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Anarchist Black Cross was originally called the Anarchist Red Cross. The band Redd Kross was originally called Red Cross. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

The allied collapse in May 1940 prevented her evacuation from France and she remained there until the summer of 1941 when she escaped to England via Spain and Portugal. 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ...

In September of the same year she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, working at the Department of the Chief of Air Staff as Assistant Section Officer for Intelligence duties, before being posted in July 1942 to Moreton-in-Marsh, where she was promoted to Section Officer. The U.S. Womens Auxiliary Air Force was created in June of 1939. ... This article is about the year. ... Location within the British Isles. ...

She first came to the attention of the Special Operations Executive when Harry Sporborg, a senior SOE staff member, saw her file and requested that she be appointed his secretary. Having already joined the WAAF, she began military training instead. Some months later she happened to meet Squadron Leader William Simpson, who worked part-time for SOE and with whom she discussed her desire to return to France and take part in resistance work. In early March 1943 she received an invitation to a preliminary interview with an officer of SOE F Section, and on 18 March began her training. The Special Operations Executive (SOE), sometimes referred to as the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organization initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... A Squadron Leaders sleeve/shoulder insignia Squadron Leader is a commissioned rank in some air forces. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ...

On 16 June she was flown to a location north-east of Angers in the Loire Valley in occupied France with fellow-agents Noor Inayat Khan and Cecily Lefort, where they were met by Henri Dericourt, the air movements officer for F section. June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... Location within France Angers is a city in France in the département of Maine-et-Loire, 191 miles south-west of Paris. ... Loire Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire) is known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language. ... Noor Inayat Khan (January 1, 1914 - September 11, 1944) was born in Moscow, of an Indian father (Inayat Khan) and an American mother (Ora Meena Ray Baker, who was a relative of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science). ... Cecily Margot Lefort (April 30, 1900 – May 1, 1945) was a heroine of World War II. 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. ... Henri Dericourt (1909-1962) was a French agent for Special Operations Executive who may have become a double agent for Abwehr. ...

From there, she made her way to St. Amour where she was assigned to the Acrobat network, led by John Starr. Her duties included that of a courier, delivering messages to other agents and members of the underground in Marseille, Lyon and Paris. She also helped agent Harry Rée plan the destruction of the Peugeot factory at Sochaux, where tank turrets and aircraft engine parts were made. These are the networks, also known as circuits, (or réseaux to their French participants) established in France by F Section of the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. ... John Renshaw Starr (died 1996), was one of two sons of Alfred Demarest Starr (an American) and Ethel Renshaw (English). ... City motto: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis. ... City motto: Avant, avant, Lion le melhor. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, with the skyscrapers of La Défense business district 5 km/ 3 mi behind. ... Harry Rée (1914-1991) was a British educationist and wartime member of SOE. Harry Ree was born in England. ... Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën. ... Sochaux is a town and commune of eastern France, located in the Doubs département, near Montbéliard. ...

A month after Rowden's arrival, network leader John Starr was arrested. Rowden and wireless operator John Young took refuge with a French family at the village of Clairvaux-les-Lacs, near Lons-le-Saunier. John Renshaw Starr (died 1996), was one of two sons of Alfred Demarest Starr (an American) and Ethel Renshaw (English). ... Lons-le-Saunier is a commune of France, préfecture (capital) of the Jura département. ...

In mid-November 1943, they were told by wireless from Baker Street to expect the arrival of a new agent. On 18 November the new arrival appeared, but turned out to be a false agent planted by the Germans. Rowden and Young were arrested that evening and taken to Lons-le-Saunier. 64 Baker Street, London was the address of the headquarters of the Special Operations Executive. ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...

Next day Rowden was taken to 84 Avenue Foch, the Paris headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst where she was interrogated for two weeks before being sent to Fresnes prison. Number 84 Avenue Foch was a building in Paris used by the German Gestapo during their occupation of Paris in World War II. The location is found on Avenue Foch, a wide residential boulevard in the 16e arrondissement which connects the Arc de Triomphe and the Porte Dauphine. ... SD Insignia Patch The Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Security Service) was the intelligence service of the SS. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was considered a sister organization with the Gestapo. ... Fresnes Prison (Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne near the city of Paris. ...

On 13 May 1944 Diana Rowden, along with arrested SOE agents Sonya Olschanezky, Andrée Borrel, Yolande Beekman, Vera Leigh, Eliane Plewman, Odette Sansom-Hallowes and Madeleine Damerment were moved to concentration camps in Germany. May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (134th in leap years). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Sonya Olschanezky was born in Chemnitz, on 25th December, 1923. ... Andrée Raymonde Borrel, born in France on November 18, 1919 - died July 6, 1944 at Natzwiller, Bas-Rhin, France. ... Yolande Beekman (1911 - September 11, 1944) is a heroine of World War II. Born as Yolande Elsa Maria Unternahrer to an educated family in Paris, Beekman moved as a child to London and grew up fluent in the English, German, and French languages. ... Vera Leigh was born Vera Glass on March 17, 1903 in Leeds, England. ... Eliane Plewman (1917-1944) was a French SOE agent and member of French resistance. ... Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE Odette Marie Celine Sansom (April 28, 1912 - March 13, 1995) was an Allied heroine of World War II. Biography Odette Marie Celine Brailly was born in Amiens in the Somme département of France. ... Madeleine Zoe Damerment (November 11, 1917 - September 11, 1944) is a heroine of World War II. Madeleine Damerment was born in the city Lille in the Nord département of France. ... It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ...

On 6 July 1944, Rowden, Leigh, Borrel and Olschanezky were shipped to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace (France) where they were injected with phenol and disposed of in the crematorium. They were meant to disappear without trace, but their arrival at the concentration camp was witnessed by captured PAT Line operator Albert Guérisse and SOE agent Brian Stonehouse. July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Camp entrance Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller (German Natzweiler) in France about 50 km south west from the city of Strasbourg. ... It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ... The Vosges mountains are range of mountains in central-western Europe, stretching along the west side of the Rhine valley in a NNE direction, from Basel to Mainz, for a distance of 250 km (150 miles). ... Capital Strasbourg Land area¹ 8,280 km² Regional President Adrien Zeller (UMP) (since 1996) Population  - Jan. ... Phenol, also known under the old name carbolic acid, is a colorless crystalline solid with a typical sweet tarry odor. ... Cremation is the practice of disposing of a corpse by burning. ... Albert Guérisse (April 5, 1911-March 26, 1989) was a Belgian Resistance member who organized escape routes for downed Allied pilots during World War II. He used a name Pat OLeary. ... Brian Julian Stonehouse (August 8, 1918 _ December 1998) was a British painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. He was born in Torquay, England. ...

As tragic as the deaths of these women were, it should be understood that execution of prisoners guilty of espionage was not a violation of the Geneva Convention when the persons responsible for the espionage had operated out of uniform. Moreover, both the United States and Great Britain put German spies to death after military courtsmartial. It would seem, however, particularly poignant that these were all women. Indeed, it was against German law to execute female prisoners found guilty of espionage and so it was out of keeping with Nazi practice. This was especially irregular considering the fact that the higher ranking male SOE prisoners at Natzweiler, Dachau, and elsewhere were kept in relatively safe conditions. Nevertheless, at least twelve female SOE prisoners did not return from the camps. The Geneva Conventions consist of treaties formulated in Geneva, Switzerland that set the standards for international law for humanitarian concerns. ...

Certain discrepancies arise in the account of Diana Rowden's death, as have been related in Rita Kramer's book, Flames in the Field. First, Rowden was supposed to have been recognizable by her British clothes, yet she was operating undercover as a French citizen. She arrived at Natzweiler in July, yet Brian Stonehouse is on record as witnessing her wearing a fur coat. The crematorium was in fact at a considerable distance from the camp itself, though several former prisoners testified at the Nuremberg trials that they witnessed some part of the execution, if only through a crack in the door. The four women were said to have been killed by an injection of phenol, but no witness was actually present when the lethal injection was given. Stonehouse, an SOE agent, was the primary source of knowledge of the execution and cremation of these women. He survived the war and the concentration camps and died in 1998. Brian Julian Stonehouse (August 8, 1918 _ December 1998) was a British painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. He was born in Torquay, England. ... The Nuremberg Trials were the sets of trials of officials involved in World War II and the Holocaust during the Nazi regime. ... Phenol, also known under the old name carbolic acid, is a colorless crystalline solid with a typical sweet tarry odor. ...

Her name is registered with the Scottish National War Memorial in

Posthumously, she was created an MBE and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these... The Croix de guerre is a military decoration of both Belgium and France which was first created in 1915. ...

Her name is registered with the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle, at the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England and on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département of France. Edinburgh Castle and NorLoch, around 1780 by Alexander Nasmyth Edinburgh Castle is an ancient stronghold on the Castle Rock in the centre of the city of Edinburgh, has been in use by assorted military forces since 900 BC and only transferred from Ministry of Defence administration recently. ... 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, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001... 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. ...

The concentration camp where she died is a now a French government historical site and a plaque to Diana Rowden and the three women who died with her is part of the Deportation Memorial on the site. In 1985, SOE agent and painter Brian Stonehouse, who saw Diana Rowden and the three other female SOE agents at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp just before their deaths, painted a poignant watercolour of the four women which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London. This article is about the year. ... Brian Julian Stonehouse (August 8, 1918 _ December 1998) was a British painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. He was born in Torquay, England. ... This article is about the British city. ...