WAAFs Serving With SOE
Several members of the WAAF served with the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.
- Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan (9901), posthumously Mentioned in Dispatches and awarded the French Croix de Guerre with Gold Star and the George Cross, Britain's highest award for gallantry not in the face of the enemy.
- Section Officer Yvonne Baseden
- Section Officer Yolande Beekman, posthumously awarded the French Croix de Guerre.
- Assistant Section Officer Sonya Butt (9910)
- Section Officer Muriel Byck
- Flight Officer Yvonne Cormeau, awarded the MBE, the Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre and Médaille combattant volontaire de la Résistance.
- Flight Officer Alix D'Unienville
- Flight Officer Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine Granville), awarded the OBE, George Medal and Croix de Guerre.
- Section Officer Mary Katherine Herbert
- Section Officer Phyliss Latour
- Section Officer Cecily Lefort, posthumously awarded the French Croix de Guerre.
- Section Officer Patricia O'Sullivan
- Sergeant Haviva Reik (aka Ada Robinson)
- Assistant Section Officer Lilian Rolfe, posthumously awarded the MBE and the Croix de Guerre.
- Section Officer Diana Rowden, posthumously awarded the MBE and the Croix de Guerre.
- Section Officer Anne-Marie Walters, awarded the MBE.
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