HEROINES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE – YVONNE CLAIRE RUDELLAT née CERNEAU MBE,

 

Yvonne was born in France

And served as an agent for the SOE

Under the codename “Jacqueline”, 

She was the first female

SOE-trained agent to go to France

Sailing from Gibraltar to Cannes

On board a felucca called Seadog

Arriving on July 30^th 1942

Once there she was a courier

For the Prosper or Physician network

Before joining the Monkeypuzzle circuit

After Prosper was infiltrated

In June 1943 she was captured

After being shot in the head

By the Germans and imprisoned.

She died of typhus in April 1945

At Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

A few days after the camp was liberated

She was posthumously awarded an MBE