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1 . 9 C i n e m a / P h o t o ( J a n u a r y 1 9 4 3 t o F e b r u a r y 1 9 4 4 )
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1 . 1 7 F a r r i e r ( D e c e m b e r 1 9 4 2 t o M a y 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 1 8 F i r e m a n ( M a r c h 1 9 4 4 t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 1 9 F o o t m a n ( J a n u a r y t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 2 0 F r e e l a n c e ( A p r i l 1 9 4 4 t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 2 1 G r e e n h e a r t ( J u l y 1 9 4 2 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 3 )
1 . 2 2 H e a d m a s t e r ( S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 2 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 2 3 H e c k l e r / S a i n t ( S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 1 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 2 4 H i s t o r i a n ( A p r i l 1 9 4 4 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 4 )
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1 . 2 6 J o c k e y ( M a r c h 1 9 4 3 t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 2 7 J u g g l e r ( J u l y 1 9 4 2 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 2 8 L a b o u r e r ( A p r i l t o J u n e 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 2 9 M a r k s m a n ( J u l y 1 9 4 2 t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 3 0 M i n i s t e r ( M a r c h t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 3 1 M o n k ( J u n e 1 9 4 3 t o M a r c h 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 3 2 M o n k e y p u z z l e ( J u l y 1 9 4 2 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 3 )
1 . 3 3 M u s i c i a n ( N o v e m b e r 1 9 4 2 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 3 4 P a r s o n ( J u n e 1 9 4 3 t o F e b r u a r y 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 3 5 P e r m i t ( J u l y t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 3 6 P h y s i c i a n / P r o s p e r ( J u n e 1 9 4 2 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 3
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1 . 3 8 P l a n e ( A p r i l 1 9 4 2 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 3 )
1 . 3 9 P r i v e t ( J u l y 1 9 4 2 t o J u n e 1 9 4 3 )
1 . 4 0 P r o f e s s o r / P e d l a r ( F e b r u a r y 1 9 4 2 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 4 )
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1 . 4 3 S a l e s m a n ( A p r i l 1 9 4 3 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 4 4 S a t i r i s t ( J u l y 1 9 4 2 t o M a r c h 1 9 4 4
1 . 4 5 S c h o l a r ( M a y 1 9 4 4 t o J u l y 1 9 4 4
1 . 4 6 S c i e n t i s t ( J u l y 1 9 4 2 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 4
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1 . 4 9 S i l v e r s m i t h ( M a y t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 5 0 S p i n d l e ( J a n u a r y 1 9 4 2 t o J u l y 1 9 4 3 )
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1 . 5 2 S t a t i o n e r ( J a n u a r y 1 9 4 3 t o A p r i l 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 5 3 S t o c k b r o k e r / J u d g e ( A p r i l 4 3 t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 5 4 T i n k e r ( S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 1 t o A u g u s t 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 5 5 U r c h i n ( S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 1 t o J u l y 1 9 4 3 )
1 . 5 6 V e n t r i l o q u i s t ( M a y 1 9 4 1 t o N o v e m b e r 1 9 4 2 )
1 . 5 7 W h e e l w r i g h t ( N o v e m b e r 1 9 4 2 t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 5 8 W i z a r d ( M a r c h 1 9 4 4 t o J u l y 1 9 4 4 )
1 . 5 9 W r e s t l e r ( M a y 1 9 4 4 t o S e p t e m b e r 1 9 4 4 )
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This article lists the clandestine networks , also known as circuits , (réseaux in French ) established in France by F Section of the British Special Operations Executive during World War II . The SOE agents assigned to each network are also listed. SOE agents, with a few exceptions, were trained in the United Kingdom before being infiltrated into France. Some agents served in more than one network and are listed more than once.
The clandestine networks and agents were "dedicated to encourage and aid resistance" to the German occupation of the country. Activities included gathering intelligence, organizing and supplying indigenous resistance groups, and sabotaging transportation, communications, and industrial facilities. A typical SOE network had three agents: 1. Circuit organiser: leader, planner, and recruiter of new members. 2. Wireless Radio Operator: send and receive wireless messages to and from SOE headquarters in London, encode and decode messages, maintain wireless sets. 3. Courier or messenger: travel between organiser, wireless operator, and resistance groups to deliver and receive messages, and, on occasion, deliver explosives and other equipment. Large networks sometimes had more than one courier and wireless operator.[1]
Each network was given a name and each agent belonging to the network had one or more code names and aliases which he used in France. For example, SOE organiser George Reginald Starr was the organiser of the Wheelwright network and known as "Hilaire" to French contacts in the Resistance and to other SOE personnel.[2]
Nearly 50 SOE networks were operating in France when the country was liberated from German control in 1944. Forty-three circuits were no longer existent at that time of which 31 had been destroyed by the Germans.
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Approximately 470 SOE agents served in France during World War II.[4] Valençay SOE Memorial in Valençay , France lists the names of 91 men and 13 women who were killed, executed, or died in prison while serving as SOE agents.[5]
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All names of networks and dates for the operations of individual networks are from M. R. D. Foot 's SOE in France (2004), pages 466-467. Dates of network operations are inclusive; some networks had lengthy periods of inactivity within the dates cited. Individual agents may have served in more than one network or during only part of the time the network was operational.
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John Renshaw Starr (1908–1996), organiser
George Donovan Jones, wireless operator
Harry Rée (1914–1991)
Diana Rowden (1915–1944), courier, code name "Paulette"[7]
John Cuthbert Young (1907–1944), wireless operator, code name "Gabriel"
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Pierre de Vomécourt (1906–1986), organiser, code name "Lucas."
Georges Bégué (1911–1993), wireless operator; the first SOE agent to be sent to France, arriving by parachute the night of 5/6 May 1941.[12]
André Bloch (1914–1942), wireless operator
Noel Fernand Rauol Burdeyron (real name, Norman F. Burley), agent
Christopher Burney (1917–1980), assistant
Marcel Clech (1905–1944), wireless operator. code name "Bastien"
Roger Cottin - assistant
Raymond Henry Flower
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Jean Bouguennec (1912-1944), organiser, code name "Max"
Marcel Rousset, wireless operator, code name "Leopold"
Marcel Fox, courier, code name "Ernest"
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Emile Garry (1909–1944), organiser
Noor Inayat Khan (1914–1944), wireless operator, code name "Madeleine"
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Denise Bloch (1916–1945), courier, wireless operator, code name 'Ambroise"
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Jacques Poirier – organiser[27]
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Dennis John Barrett (1916-1944), wireless operator, code name "Honore"
Yvonne Fontaine , courier, code name "Mimi"
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Marcel Clech (1905-1944), wireless operator, code name "Bastien"
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François Vallée (1912-1944), organiser,
George Clement (1917-1944), wireless operator, code name "Edouard"
Henri Gaillot (1896-1944), code name "Ignace"
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Robert Bruhl – assistant
Gerard Dedieu – organiser[38]
Ginette Jullian , wireless operator, code name "Adele"
Charles Ronald Shearn. Arrived in France 8 August 1944. Killed in Burma, 1945.
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Francis Suttill (1910-1945), organiser, code name "Prosper"
Francine Agazarian , courier, code name "Marguerite"
Jack Agazarian – wireless operator
James Frederick Amps (1908-1945), deputy, code name "Tomas"[40]
Andrée Borrel (1919–1944), courier, code name "Denise"
Jacques Bureau – radio technician
George William Darling – group leader
Henri Dericourt , air operations officer
Noor Inayat Khan , wireless operator. Captured, executed 13 Sep 1944 at Dachau.
Gilbert Norman – wireless operator
Yvonne Rudelatt , courier, code name "Jacqueline"
Madeleine Tambour
Germaine Tambour
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Edward (Teddy) Montfort Wilkinson, organiser, code name "Alexandre."[42]
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Éric Cauchi (1917-1944), arms instructor, code name "Pedro"
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George Reginald Starr , organiser
Claude Arnault , saboteur, code name "Néron."
Denise Bloch , courier, code name 'Ambroise"
Yvonne Cormeau , wireless operator, code name "Annette"
Philippe de Gunzbourg
Charles Ducharlard, saboteur
Dennis Parsons, wireless operator
Anne-Marie Walters , courier, code name "Colette"
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Pearl Witherington (1914–2008), organiser, code name "Marie" and "Pauline"
Henri Cornioley
Map of networks as of June 1943
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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).
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 .
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Operation Asymptote was mounted in February 1944, while the Operational Instructions[50] Pierre Brossolette who had been captured on 2 February 1944 while trying to leave Brittany by boat. F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas (alias Shelley, alias Asymptote alias Cheval) and Maurice Lostrie (alias Trieur) were dropped on the night of 24 February 1944 by a RAF Halifax of 161 Squadron on DZ (Drop-zone) Sarrall, 16 km NE of Montluçon, Allier. Yeo-Thomas was captured by the Gestapo on 21 March 1944. Brossolette died while trying to escape the next day.
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References
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^ Escott, Beryl E. (2010) The Heroines of SOE, Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, pp. 9– 12, 26-27
^ Glass, Charles (2018). They Fought Alone . New York: Penguin Press. pp. ix–xiv. ISBN 9781594206177
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^ "The Female Spies of the SOE," [1 ] , accessed 8 January 2020
^ "The Section F Monument," [2 ] , accessed 8 January 2020
^ Mace, Martin; Grehan, John (2012). Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army . Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword. pp. 156–158. ISBN 9781848847941
^ Cookridge, E.H. (1967), Set Europe Ablaze , New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, pp. 67–68
^ Jacobs, Peter (30 September 2015). Setting France Ablaze: The SOE in France During WWII ISBN 978-1-78346-336-7
^ "George Hiller - Special Operations Executive (SOE) Agents in France" . nigelperrin.com . Retrieved 20 March 2023 .
^ "Captain Brian Dominic Rafferty | Christ Church, Oxford University" .
^ Vigurs, Kate (2021). Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE ISBN 978-0-300-20857-3
^ "The British Prosper Spy Network: Destroyed to Protect D-Day?" . 31 August 2016. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017.
^ Suttill, Francis J. (2018). Prosper . Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 9780750989374
^ Marnham, Patrick (2020). War in the Shadows . London: Oneworld. p. 77. ISBN 9781786078094
^ Marshall, Bruce (2001). The White Rabbit . Cassell. p. 101. ISBN 030435697-2
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