Leo Marks
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Leopold Samuel Marks was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer. During the Second World War he headed the codes office supporting resistance agents in occupied Europe for the secret Speci
Marks at the opening of the Violette Szabo Museum, 2000
Leopold (Leo) Samuel Marks Historical Marker
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
Leo Marks
…key to a single message (or possibly just part of the key.) Marks wrote many poems later used by agents, the most famous being one he gave to the agent Violette Szabo, The Life That I Have, which gained popularity when it was used in the 1958 film about her, Carve Her Name With Pride. According to his book, Marks…
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