But was English born
And served as an agent for the
SOE
In October 1943 “Simone”
Was arrested by the Gestapo
Along with other members of
her group
Then transported
to Fresnes Prison
And interrogated
and brutalized repeatedly
Before being sent to Karlsruhe in Germany,
With several
other captured SOE agents
But was ultimately taken to
The Natzweiler-Struthof concentration
camp in France
Where on the 6th July 1944,
Along with three other agents
She was taken to the crematorium
After being beaten senseless
They were burned alive in the crematorium.
As far as the British were concerned
She was only missing
And she was mentioned in
despatches
She was posthumously awarded
A
Kings Commendation for Brave Conduct
And is commemorated on
the Tempsford Memorial
In the
Bedfordshire village of Tempsford
Her name is also recorded on the Brookwood
Memorial
In Surrey as
one of 3,500
“To whom war
denied a known and honoured grave”
And on the
Valençay SOE Memorial “Roll of Honour”
In the
French town of Valençay.
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