Tuesday, 24 June 2025

HEROINES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE - ELIZABETH “MINNIE” DEVEREUX-ROCHESTER Croix de Guerre, LdH

 

Minnie was American born

But served as an agent for the SOE

Under the Codenames of

Elizabeth, and “La Grande”

She landed in France in October 1943

On Hudson aircraft in a field

And operated as a courier,

For the Marksman network.

She was arrested in March 1944

And was held at the Fresnes Prison,

Then transferred to an Internment Camp,

Where she stayed until liberation.

After the war she was awarded

A Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur

And a French Croix de Guerre

In 1957 she was diagnosed with MS

She lived her later years in Brittany

Until her death on the 19th March 1983

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