Denise Bloch
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Denise Madeleine Bloch was a French citizen who worked as an agent with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive organization in the Second World War. The purpose of SOE was to conduct esp
Bloch in 1930s or 1940s
FANY (SOE) memorial, Brookwood Military Cemetery, 5 July 2017
Violette Szabo
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Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC was a British-French Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupi
Denise Bloch
…and other captured SOE agents was sent by train to Germany. In late August she reached Ravensbrück concentration camp for women. Along with SOE agents Violette Szabo and Lilian Rolfe she volunteered for a work party at Torgau in Saxony, where conditions were better than at Ravensbrūck. They attempted, but failed to…
Violette Szabo c.1944
The former Register Office in Aldershot, Hampshire where the Szabos married in 1940
Westland Lysander MkIII (SD)
George Cross and its ribbon bar