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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