She was English born
And served as an agent for the SOE
In November 1943 “Paulette”
Was arrested by German Military Police
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
an MBE
(later withdrawn due to the policy on posthumous
awards)
She was awarded the Croix de Guerre
1939-1945
A Kings Commendation for Brave
Conduct
And is commemorated on the Tempsford Memorial
in the Bedfordshire village of Tempsford
And is registered with the Scottish National War
Memorial
In Edinburgh Castle, 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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