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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