Saturday, 6 March 2021

HEROINES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE - LILIAN VERA ROLFE MBE

 

She was French born

But died as an agent for the SOE

In July 1944 “Nadine”

She was captured by the Germans

And transported to Fresnes Prison in Paris,

Where she was interrogated repeatedly

And brutally tortured until August

She was then transferred to Germany

To be imprisoned at Ravensbrück

Along with two other agents

And in the early morning hours

In February 1945,

They were shot in the back of the head

Their bodies then immediately

Burned in the crematorium.

She was posthumously awarded

A French Croix de Guerre with palm, an MBE

And was mentioned in despatches

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