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(later withdrawn due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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