Gilbert Maurice Norman was born 1914 in Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France to an English father and a French mother and was educated in France and England. Saint Cloud or St. ... Capital Paris Land area¹ 12,011 km² Regional President Jean-Paul Huchon (PS) (since 1998) Population  - Jan. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area...

He joined the army, receiving a commission in the Durham Light Infantry in 1940 and was subsequently recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) was formed in 1881 from the 68th Regiment of Foot which had originally been raised in County Durham by General John Lambton in 1758. ... 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. ...

In November 1942 he was sent into France to join the newly formed Prosper network, but on June 23, 1943 was arrested by the Gestapo. together with cell leader Francis Suttill and courier Andrée Borrel. 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. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... This article or section includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Andrée Raymonde Borrel, born in France on November 18, 1919 - died July 6, 1944 at Natzwiller, Bas-Rhin, France. ...

Norman was taken to the Paris headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst at 84 Avenue Foch and tortured for several days. Sicherheitsdienst (SD) sleeve insignia. ... 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. ...

The Germans used Norman's captured wireless set, to transmit their own false messages to SOE Headquarters in Baker Street. Norman attempted to warn London that he was in captivity by not giving the Germans the second part of his security check, which they did not know about, but was frustrated when London sent a curt reply telling him to correct the omission. 64 Baker Street, London was the address of the headquarters of the Special Operations Executive. ...

The Germans were thus able to set a trap which resulted in the capture of Jack Agazarian who had been sent with Nicholas Bodington to investigate the fate of the Prosper network. Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian (1916 - March 29, 1945) was a British espionage agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) inside France. ...

After brutal interrogation and torture, Norman was shipped to Mauthausen concentration camp where he was executed on September 6, 1944. Mauthausen (from summer 1940, Mauthausen-Gusen) was a group of 49 Nazi concentration camps situated around the small town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria, about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz. ... September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Major Gilbert Norman is honored on the Brookwood Memorial in Surrey, England and as also on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre departément of France. Brookwood Cemetery (aka the London Necropolis) was set up by the London Necropolis Company in 1852 to house Londons dead, since the capital was finding it difficult to locate the increasing population, both of living and dead. ... This is about Surrey, England. ... 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. ...