List of Female SOE Agents

List Of Female SOE Agents

The following is an incomplete list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive during World War II.

Name SOE Section Nationality Born-Died Awards Notes
Lorraine Adie French BR 1916- Married American OSS agent Miles Copeland, Jr.
Francine Agazarian French British 1913–1999 MiD Wife of Jack Agazarian
Juliane Aisner French French 1919-1980s
Vera Atkins French Romanian/British 1908–2000 LdH, CdeG F Section Intelligence Officer and Assistant to Maurice Buckmaster
Dorothy Baden-Powell Scandinavian British 1920-
Lise de Baissac French Mauritian 1905–2004 Sister of SOE Agent Claude de Baissac
Madeleine Barclay French French 1911–1943 KIA aboard HMS Fidelity
Yvonne Baseden French French 1922-? MBE, LdH, CdeG
Yolande Beekman French Swiss 1911–1944 MiD KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Helen Thormann-Bierer French 1885-?
Denise Bloch French 1916–1945 KCBC, LdH, CdeG KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Andrée Borrel French French 1919–1944 CdeG KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Sonya Butt French British 1924- MBE, MiD Married fellow SOE agent Guy d'Artois
Muriel Byck French British 1918–1944 MiD Died in service of meningitis at Romorantin Hospital
Blanche Charlet French British 1898-1985 MBE
Marie Thérèse Le Chêne French French
Yvonne Cormeau French British 1909–1997 MBE, LdH, CdeG
Madeleine Damerment French French 1917–1944 KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester French British 1917-1983? LdH, CdeG
Alix D'Unienville French Mauritian 1919-
Yvonne Fontaine French French 1913–1996 MdlRF
Virginia Hall French American 1906–1982 MBE DSC Post war worked for the CIA
Mary Katherine Herbert French British/Irish 1903–1983 First WAAF Officer to join the SOE
Ginette Julliane French French
Noor Inyat Khan French Russian 1914–1944 GC, MBE, CdeG, MiD KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Marguerite Knight French British 1920- MBE
Phyliss Latour French British 1921- MBE, CdeG
Madeleine Lavigne French French unk-1945
Cecily Lefort French British 1900–1945 CdeG, MiD KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Vera Leigh French British 1903–1944 KCBC KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Jacqueline Nearne French British 1916–1982 MBE Sister of SOE agents Eileen & Francis Nearne
Sonia Olschanezky French Russian/French 1923–1944 KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Patricia O'Sullivan French British/Irish 1918–1994 CdG, MBE WAAF
Eliane Plewman French British 1917–1944 KCBC, CdeG KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Anne Robertson 1920-
Lilian Rolfe French British 1914–1945 MBE, CdeG, MiD KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Diana Rowden French British 1915–1944 MBE, CdeG, MiD KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Yvonne Rudelatt French French 1897–1945 Died in service of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Odette Sansom French British 1912–1995 GC, MBE, LdH Also known by the surnames "Hallowes" and "Churchill"
Krystyna Skarbek French Polish 1915–1952 GM, OBE, CdeG Better known by her pseudonm Christine Granville
Violette Szabo French British 1921–1945 GC, CdeG KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Hannah Szenes Yugoslavia Hungarian 1921–1944 KIA in Budapest
Nancy Wake French Australian 1912-2011 GC, LdH, CdeG Known by her code name "White Mouse"
Anne-Marie Walters French British 1923–1998 MBE, CdeG
Odette Wilen French
Pearl Witherington French British 1914–2008 MBE, CBE, CdeG

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