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Trotobas
, Captain M. A. R., Manchester Regiment. Dropped November 1942, on his second mission, to establish and lead the Farmer
réseau.
Killed
in action at Lille (Nord), 27 November 1943.
Médaille de la Résistance Française.

Ullman
, Lieutenant P. L., United States Army. Dropped April 1944 as a member of the Stockbroker
réseau.
Killed in action at Valentigney
(Doubs), on or about 15 April 1944.
Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

Vallée
, Captain F.,
M.C,
French Army. Dropped June 1943 to establish and lead the Parson
réseau.
Captured with
Gaillot (q.v.) February 1944. Believed killed in captivity in Gross Rosen, August-September 1944.
King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct; Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur;
Médaille de la Résistance Française (Rosette).

Wilkinson
, Hon. Flying Officer E. M., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Dropped June 1942 as a member of the Tinker
réseau.
Captured August
1942. Released November 1942 and established the Privet
réseau.
Captured June 1943. Killed in captivity at Mauthausen, 6 September 1944.
Mentioned in Despatches; Croix de Guerre
avec Palme.

Wilkinson
, Captain G. A., General List. Dropped April 1944 to establish and lead the Historian
réseau.
Captured June 1944. Killed in captivity
at Buchenwald, 5 October 1944.
Mentioned in Despatches; Croix de Guerre avec Palme.

Worms
, Lieutenant J., General List (served as J. de Verieux). Dropped January 1943 to establish and lead the Juggler
réseau.
Captured July
1943. Killed in captivity at Flossenbürg, 29 March 1945.
Military Cross; Croix de Guerre avec Palme; Médaille de la Résistance Française.

Young
, Lieutenant J. C., General List. Dropped May 1943 as a member of the Acrobat
réseau
. Captured November 1943. Killed in captivity at
Mauthausen, 6 September 1944.
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division); Croix de Guerre avec Palme
.

SOE F Section circuits in France

This list gives details of circuits or circuit members mentioned in this book. Since 2000, information about the SOE’s operations has been widely available, and full
details of the circuits and networks listed here but not mentioned in this book can be found online and in the official and other histories. (The complete list of circuits in the Réseau Buck
can be found in M. R. D. Foot’s book
SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944.)

Acrobat

†A. A. J. Maugenet

Harry Rée – worked with Acrobat before taking charge of Stockbroker

†Diana Rowden – courier

Jean Simon – organizer following Starr’s arrest

John Renshaw Starr – organizer

Andre Henri Van der Straton

†John Cuthbert Young – wireless operator

Actor

Roger Landes – wireless operator

Archdeacon

†J. K. Macalister

†E G. Michel

F. H. D. Pickersgill – organizer

Asymptote

F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas

Aubretia

†B. D. Rafferty – organizer

Author

†L. E. D. Bertheau

Harry Peulevé – organizer

Jacques Poirier – organizer

Autogiro

Georges Bégué – wireless operator

†A. G. Bloch (or Boyd)

Noël Fernand Raoul Burdeyron (or Norman F. Burley) – agent

Christopher Burney – assigned to assist Burdeyron

Raymond Henry Flower

Pierre de Vomécourt – organizer

Bargee

†A. Rabinovitch – organizer

Bay

†T. C. Coppin – organizer

Birch

†J. F G. Menesson – organizer

Bricklayer

†France Antelme – organizer

†Madeleine Damerment – courier

†Lionel Lee – wireless operator

Butler

†J. Bougennec (or F. Garel) – organizer

Carter

Charles Henri Lucien – organizer

Chestnut

†Roland Dowlen – wireless operator

†William Grover-Williams – organizer

Cinema

†Emile Henri Garry – organizer

†Noor Inayat-Khan – wireless operator

Clergyman

†Robert Benoist – organizer

†Denise Bloch – wireless operator, 1943–1945

Louis Blondet – instructor

Delegate

†J. T. J. M. Detal – organizer

†P. F Duclos

Detective

†Denise Bloch – wireless operator, 1943–1945

Blanche Charlet – courier

Henri Sevenet (aka Henry Thomas) – organizer

Brian Stonehouse – wireless operator

Digger

Jacques Poirier – organizer

Ditcher

Guy D’Artois – organizer

†Jean Renaud

Donkeyman

Rolf Baumann – teacher

†Jean Dubois – wireless operator

Francis Cammaerts

†Henri Frager – organizer

Peggy Knight – courier

†A. R. Lansdell

Vera Leigh – liaison officer

†E. Levene

Farmer

Arthur Staggs – wireless operator

†Michael Trotobas – organizer

Farrier

Juliane Aisner – courier

Marcel Remy Clement – assistant

Henri Déricourt – organizer

Andre Watt – wireless operator

Fireman

Edmund Mayer – organizer

Percy Mayer – organizer

Footman

George Hiller – organizer

Freelance

John D. Allsop – instructor

Andre Michael Bloch – instructor

Rene Dussaq – assistant

John Farmer – organizer

Denis Rake – wireless operator

Reeve Schley

Nancy Wake – courier

Gamekeeper

†Jack Agazarian – wireless operator

Gondolier

†P F. M. Sarrette – organizer

Headmaster

†F. E. Bee

Charles Sydney ‘Soapy’ Hudson – organizer

Heckler

Paul Goillot – organizer

Henry Riley – organizer

Historian

Nicholas Allington – assistant

†Jean Renaud-Dandicolle (or John Danby)

†Liliane Rolfe – wireless operator

André Studler – assistant

†George Alfred ‘Teddy’ Wilkinson – organizer

Inventor

†Marcel Clech – wireless operator

†Sidney Jones – organizer and arms instructor

†Vera Leigh – courier

Jockey

Francis Cammaerts – organizer

Leslie Fernandez

Xan Fielding

Auguste Floiras – wireless operator

Christine Granville – courier

†Cecily Lefort – courier

Pierre Martinot – instructor

Pierre Reynaud – sabotage instructor

Antoine Sereni – wireless operator

Juggler

†Jean Worms (or Jean de Verieux) – organizer

Labourer

†E. A. L. Allard

†P. A. H. Geelen

†Maurice Larcher – wireless operator

Marcel Leccia (or Georges Louis) – organizer

Lackey

A. Beauregard

Liontamer

†D. H. Finlayson

†M. A. Lepage – organizer

†E. Lesout

Marksman

Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester – courier

Richard Harry Heslop – organizer

Owen Johnson – wireless operator

Gordon Nornable – wireless operator

Geoffrey Parker – medic

Jean Pierre Rosenthal – organizer

Marcel Veilleux – wireless operator

Minister

†Denis Barrett – wireless operator

†P. L. Mulsant – organizer

Monkeypuzzle or Monk

Marcel Clech – wireless operator

†Eliane Plewman – courier

†Jack Sinclair

†Charles Skepper – organizer

†Arthur Steele – wireless operator

Musician

†Yolande Beekman – wireless operator

†Gustave (Guy) Bieler – organizer

†G. B. McBain

†Paul Tessier – assistant

Orator

†J. P. H. Ledoux – organizer

Parson

†G. Clement

†H. H. Gaillot

Pedlar

Nicholas Bodington – organizer

Phono

†F. A. Deniset

Pimento

Anthony Brooks – organizer

Permit

Gerard Dedieu – organizer

Physician

Francine Agazarian – courier

Jack Agazarian – wireless operator

†J. F Amps

†Andrée Borrel – courier

Jacques Bureau – radio technician

Pierre Culioli – organizer

George Darling – group leader

†Gilbert Norman – wireless operator

†Yvonne Rudellat – courier

†Francis Suttill – organizer

Germaine Tambour

Madeleine Tambour

Playwright

†E. G. J. Duboudin – organizer

Priest

†A. Defendini – organizer

†R. Sabourin

Privet

†E. M. Wilkinson – organizer

Prunus

†M. R. Bloom

†M. Pertschuk – organizer

Publican

†M. G. F. Fox – organizer

Redwood

†B. D. Rafferty

Reporter

†C. M. Jumeau – organizer

Rover

†J. A. Mayer

†C. Rechenmann – organizer

Salesman

Edgar Fraser – Dakota expert

Jean Claude Guiet – wireless operator

Philippe Liewer (aka Charles Staunton) – organizer

Bob Maloubier – weapons instructor

†Claude Malraux

†Isidore Newman – wireless operator

Violette Szabo – courier

Satirist

†Marcel Defence – wireless operator

†A. de Montalembert

†O. A. G. Simon – organizer

Scholar

Raymond Aubin – organizer

Yvonne Baseden – wireless operator

Rene Bichelot – assistant

Louis Antoine Nonni

†Marie Joseph de Saint-Geniès – organizer

Gonzague de Saint-Geniès – organizer

Scientist

Claude de Baissac – organizer

Lise de Baissac – courier

André Grandclément – organizer double agent

†Victor Hayes – instructor

Mary Katherine Herbert – courier

Roger Landes – wireless operator

†Maurice Larcher – wireless operator

Phyliss Latour – wireless operator

†Paul Baptiste Pardi – landing grounds

Harry Peulevé

†Jean Renaud-Dandicolle (or John Danby)

Scullion II

† P. J. Amphlett

†G. W. H. Demand

†H. H. Graham

†D. W. Sibrée

†V. A. Soskice

Shipwright

Amédée (Dédé) Mainguard – organizer

†A. Schwatschko

Spindle

Peter Churchill – organizer

André Girard

Victor Hazan

Adolphe Rabinovitch – wireless operator

Odette Sansom – courier

Spiritualist

Henri Diacono – wireless operator

René Dumont-Guillemet – organizer

†Paul Tessier – assistant

Spruce or Plane

Robert Boiteaux – organizer

Henri Paul Le Chêne – organizer

Stationer

Jacques Dufour

Amédée (Dédé) Mainguard – organizer

†René Mathieu – wireless operator

Pierre Mattei – landing grounds

Jacqueline Nearne – courier

†A. Schwatschko

Alexander Shaw – landing grounds

Maurice Southgate – organizer

Pearl Witherington – courier; organizer following Southgate’s arrest of Wrestler

Stockbroker

†Eric Cauchi – instructor

Joseph Maetz

Harry Rée – organizer

†Diana Rowden – courier

†Jean Alexander Simon

†Paul Ullman – wireless operator

Surveyor

†R. E. J. Alexandre – organizer

†R. B. Byerly

Tinker

Benny Cowburn – organizer

†E. M. Wilkinson

Tobacconist

†J. T. Hamilton – sole member

Ventriloquist

†Muriel Byck – wireless operator

Emile Counasse

Maurice Lostrie – saboteur

†Stanislaw Makowski – instructor

Pierre de Vomécourt – organizer

Verger

†Maurice Larcher – wireless operator

†Jean Renaud-Dandicolle (or John Danby) – organizer

Wheelwright

Jean-Claude Arnault – assistant

Yvonne Cormeau – wireless operator

Philippe de Gunzbourg – courier

George Reginald Starr – organizer

Anne-Marie Walters – courier

Wizard

Eileen (Didi) Nearne – wireless operator

Jean Savy – organizer

Wrestler

Pearl Witherington – organizer

† – killed or executed while on a mission

Endnote

1
In June 1944 a group of French résistants disguised as Milice marched into the Propaganda Ministry in the rue Solferino in Paris –
now the HQ of the French Socialist Party – and shot Philippe Henriot dead as he reached the bottom of the stairs. Rumour has it that this murder was orchestrated by SOE and carried out by an
SOE agent. But the rumour has never been confirmed.

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