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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. See also SOE F Section timeline. 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 organisation initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ...
Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
Timeline of events in the history of Section F of the Special Operations Executive. ...
Acrobat
- Harry Rée - worked with Acrobat before taking charge of Stockbroker
- Diana Hope Rowden - courier
- Jean Simon - organiser following Starr's arrest
- John Ashford Renshaw Starr - organiser
- John Cuthbert Young - wireless operator
Harry Rée (1914-1991) was a British educationist and wartime member of SOE. Harry Ree was born in England. ...
Archdeacon A network which was meant to be established by Frank Pickersgill and John Kenneth Macalister, who were both captured in June 1943 immediately upon arrival in France. The network became an operation run by the Germans. Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill (May 28, 1915, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - September 14, 1944, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany) is a Canadian hero of World War II. Captain Pickersgill joined the Canadian Intelligence Corps then, because he was fluent in the French language, he was recruited into the Special Operations Executive. ...
John Kenneth Macalister (July 19, 1914, Guelph, Ontario, Canada - September 14, 1944, Buchenwald) was a Canadian hero of World War II. John Macalister graduated from the University of Toronto, then as a Rhodes Scholar studied at Oxford University. ...
1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ...
Joseph Placke, an assistant in the wireless section at 84 Avenue Foch, impersonated Pickersgill, and Macalister's captured radio and codes were used to transmit false messages to London, arranging parachute drops of supplies, which of course fell into German hands. The fake operation continued until May 1944 and resulted in the capture of a sabotage instructor and six other agents sent to join the network. 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. ...
64 Baker Street, London was the address of the headquarters of the Special Operations Executive. ...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...
Asymptote
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Autogiro A network which was organised in the Paris area by Pierre de Vomécourt, but which had been destroyed by the spring of 1942. This article is about the year. ...
Georges Bégué (1911 - 1993) was French engineer and agent in the Special Operations Executive. ...
Christopher Burney (1917-1980) was an upper-class Englishman who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. The Germans locked him up, firstly in Fresnes prison, for fifteen months of solitary confinement, then in Buchenwald. ...
Bricklayer - Madeleine Zoe Damerment - courier
Carter - Charles Henri Lucien - organiser
Chestnut - Roland Dowlen - wireless operator
- William Grover-Williams - organiser
Charles Frederick William Grover-Williams (16 January 1903 – 18 March 1945), was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero. ...
Clergyman - Robert Benoist - organiser
- Denise Madeleine Bloch - wireless operator
- Louis Blondet - instructor
Robert Marcel Charles Benoist, (March 20, 1895 - September 9, 1944) was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero. ...
Detective - Denise Madeleine Bloch - courier
- Henri Sevenet
- Brian Julian Stonehouse - wireless operator
Digger
Diplomat
Ditcher Lt. Jean Renaud-Dandicolle, M.C. Captured and killed on Saturday 10 June 1944, aged 47
Donkeyman A network organised following the collapse of Autogiro and built on the remnants of Carte. It had small groups over the whole of France. The Carte Organisation was a putative organ of French resistance during the Second World War. ...
- Francis Cammaerts
- Henri Frager - organiser
- Marguerite Diana Knight - courier
- Vera Eugenie Leigh - liaison officer
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. ...
Farmer A network which was organised in the Lille area by Michael Trotobas. - Arthur Staggs - wireless operator
- Michael Trotobas - organiser
Farrier An operation to organise aircraft landings and the reception of agents sent by such means. - Julienne Marie Louise Aisner - courier
- Henri Déricourt - organiser
Fireman - Patricia (Paddy) Maureen O'Sullivan - wireless operator
Freelance - Nancy Grace Augusta Wake - courier
Headmaster - Sonya Esmee Florence Butt - courier
- Sydney Hudson - organiser
Heckler Virginia Hall Virgina Hall receiving the Distinguished Service Cross in 1945 The story of Special Operations’ Virginia Hall reads like a spy thriller. ...
Historian - Lilian Vera Rolfe - wireless operator
- George Wilkinson - organiser
Inventor A sub-circuit of the Prosper network. - Marcel Clech - wireless operator
- Sidney Jones - organiser and arms instructor
- Vera Eugenie Leigh - courier
Sidney Jones was a composer most famous for producing the scores for several musical comedies in the last Victorian period. ...
Japonica 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. ...
Jockey A network in the south-east 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. ...
Countess Krystyna Skarbek (May 1, 1915 - June 17, 1952) was the Polish-born spy known as Christine Granville and decorated United Kingdom after the war. ...
Juggler A sub-circuit of Prosper, operating from Châlons-sur-Marne, east of Paris. It also had headquarters in the rue Cambon, near the Place de la Concorde Châlons-en-Champagne is a city and commune in France. ...
The Eiffel Tower, the tallest structure in Paris, has become the international symbol of the city. ...
The Place de la Concorde seen from the Pont de la Concorde; in front, the Obelisk, behind, the Rue Royale and the Church of the Madeleine; on the left, the Hôtel de Crillon. ...
- Gustave Cohen - wireless operator
- Sonia Olschanezky - courier, administrator
- Jacques Weil - second in command
- Jean Worms - organiser
Also known as Robin. Sonya Olschanezky was born in Chemnitz, on 25th December, 1923. ...
Labourer
Marksman - Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester
- Richard Heslop - organiser
Minister
Monk - Eliane Sophie Plewman
- Charles Skepper - organiser
Musician A network in eastern Picardy. - Yolande Elsa Maria Beekman - wireless operator
- Gustave Biéler - organiser
Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler, born in 1904 in Lutry, Vaud, Switzerland - died September 6, 1944 in Bavaria, was a Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. Gustave Biéler At the age of twenty, Gustave Biéler emigrated to Canada where he settled in the city of Montreal...
Permit - Ginette Marie Helene Jullian
Phono - Emile Henri Garry - organiser
- Noor Inyat-Khan - wireless operator
Physician Also known as Prosper.
Plane - Henri Paul Le Chêne - organiser
- Marie-Thérèse Le Chêne - courier
- Pierre Louis Le Chêne - radio operator
Prosper Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian (1916 - March 29, 1945) was a British espionage agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) inside France. ...
// Summary Major Joseph Antoine France Antelme OBE, (1900-1944) was one of 14 Franco-Mauritians who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a World War II British secret service that sent spies, saboteurs and guerrilla fighters into enemy-occupied territory. ...
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. ...
Yvonne was born in January of 1897, the youngest of ten children, most of whom died in infancy. ...
Robin An unofficial name for Juggler.
Saint Virginia Hall Virgina Hall receiving the Distinguished Service Cross in 1945 The story of Special Operations’ Virginia Hall reads like a spy thriller. ...
Salesman - Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo - courier aka Louise aka la p'tite Anglaise
born in British hospital, Paris of French mother & English father Philippe Liewer aka Maj Charles Staunton aka Hamlet Jean-Claude Guiet, French-American, wireless operator aka Virgile Bob Maloubier
Scholar - Yvonne Jeanne Therese de Vibraye Baseden - wireless operator
Scientist A network in the area of Bordeaux. City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ...
- Claude de Baissac - organiser
- Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac - courier
- Mary Katherine Herbert
- Phyllis Ada Latour - wireless operator
- Harry Peulevé
Silversmith
Spindle A network based in Montpellier. Location within France Montpellier (Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ...
- Peter Churchill - organiser
- André Girard
- Odette Marie Celine Sansom - courier
Peter Morland Churchill (1909 - 1972) was an SOE officer during the World War II. His code name was Michel. Peter Churchill was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in January 14, 1909. ...
Spiritualist - Henri Diacono - wireless operator
- René Dumont-Guillemet - organiser
Stationer A network with activities in the south and center of France, from Chateauroux to the foothills of the Pyrenees. For the town in the Hautes-Alpes, see Ch teauroux-les-Alpes. ...
- Jacqueline Mary Francoise Josephine Nearne - courier
- Maurice Southgate - organiser
- Pearl Witherington - courier, organiser following Southgate's arrest
Pearl Witherington was born in Paris on 24th June, 1914. ...
Stockbroker - Harry Rée - organiser
- Diana Hope Rowden - courier
Harry Rée (1914-1991) was a British educationist and wartime member of SOE. Harry Ree was born in England. ...
Ventriloquist - Muriel Tamara Byck - wireless operator
- Blanche Charlet - courier
- Brian Julian Stonehouse - wireless operator
- Pierre de Vomécourt - organiser
Wheelwright A network in the area of Toulouse. The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French (help· info), in local Toulouse accent (help· info)) (Occitan...
George Reginald Starr (April 1904 - 1980), was one of two sons of Alfred Demarest Starr (an American) and Ethel Renshaw (English). ...
Wizard - Eileen Mary Nearne (Didi)
Wrestler A network with activities in the Valençay-Issoudun-Chateauroux triangle. Pearl Witherington was born in Paris on 24th June, 1914. ...
Map of networks as of June, 1943 The map below shows the major SOE F Section networks which existed in France in June 1943, based on the map published in Rita Kramer's book "Flames in the Field" (Michael Joseph Ltd, 1995).
Map showing major SOE networks in France, June 1943 Created by myself on November 22, 2003. ...
Note: The map does not show the correct location of the original Autogiro network, which operated in the Paris area and did not exist after the spring of 1942. However the network was later revived by Francis Suttill, organiser of Prosper. This article is about the year. ...
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