She was English born
And served as an agent for the SOE
In June 1943 “Monique”
Was arrested by the Gestapo
Along with other members of her group
And
transported for interrogation to
84 Avenue Foch, their HQ in Paris
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 a French Croix de Guerre with bronze star
A French Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
And the Médaille de la Résistance
And is commemorated on the Tempsford Memorial
In the Bedfordshire village of Tempsford
And at the Runnymede Memorial
As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation
of France,
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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