Posthumous
Posthumously, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire and Mentioned in Despatches and in France she was appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and awarded the Croix de Guerre 1939-1945. Her name is registered with the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle, at the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England, and on the "Roll of Honour" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département of France.
The concentration camp where she died is a now a French government historical site: a plaque to Rowden and the three women who died with her is part of the Deportation Memorial on the site. In 1985, SOE agent and painter Brian Stonehouse, who saw Rowden and the other female SOE agents at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp just before their deaths, painted a watercolour of the four women which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London.
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