HEROINES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE - GINETTE MARIE HÉLÈNE JULLIAN

 

She was born in France

But served as an agent for the SOE

And was Codenamed “Adele”

She parachuted into France

Near the village of Saint-Viâtre

On the day after D-day, in 1944

Jullian was a wireless operator

Operating for the Permit network

Working from a safe house in Chartres,

They began by arranging for weapons

To be air-dropped to the resistance fighters

After the Americans liberated Chartres

She worked with them as a wireless operator,

Accompanying the army to Dijon

Before returning to Britain in September 1944

She tragically died while in Tahiti 

In a scuba diving accident in 1962