HEROINES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE – VERA LEIGH née GLASS

Vera was born in England

And served as an agent for the SOE

After working for the Resistance

Under the Codename  “Simone”

She was also known as “Almoner”,

And Suzanne Chavanne

Leigh returned to France May 1943,

On an SOE Westland Lysander

Where she worked as a courier 

For the SOE's Donkeyman network

And the Inventor sub circuit

In October the circuit was betrayed

She was arrested and taken to Paris

To Gestapo headquarters at Avenue Foch

Before going to the Natzweiler-Struthof

Concentration camp in France

Where she was executed July 6^th 1944 

After the war she was awarded

The King's Commendation for Brave Conduct