SOE F Section Codenames & Aliases
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This is an incomplete list detailing the codenames and aliases used by F Section agents of the Special Operations Executive
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Special Operations Executive
The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...
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- Adele - Lisé de BaissacLisé de BaissacLise Marie Jeanette de Baissac was born in Mauritius of French descent and British nationality. She was a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, a special agent who risked her life running her own operations, but was denied a gallantry award after the war.-Escape...
- Alain - Émile Georges Jean Duboudin
- Alice - Cecily LefortCecily LefortCecily Lefort was a British SOE agent, during World War II.-Early life:Born as Cecily Margot MacKenzie in London of Scottish ancestry, she lived on the coast of Brittany in France from the age of 24 with her French husband, Dr...
- Alice Wood - Eileen NearneEileen NearneEileen Mary "Didi" Nearne MBE, was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive during World War II. She served in occupied France as a radio operator under the codename "Rose".-Early life and career:...
- Aline Bavelan - Alix D'UnienvilleAlix D'UnienvilleAlix D'Unienville was a member of the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section....
- Almoner - Vera LeighVera LeighVera Leigh was a British spy during World War II who assisted the French Resistance. In 1944 she was captured by the Germans and executed.-Early life:...
- Ambroise - Denise BlochDenise BlochDenise Madeleine Bloch was a French secret agent working with the British Special Operations Executive in World War II.- Early life :...
- Annette - Yvonne CormeauYvonne CormeauYvonne Cormeau, born Beatrice Yvonne Biesterfeld was a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War who was the second female radio operator to be sent to France and who talked her way out of arrest by pretending her wireless was an X-ray machine.-Early life:Beatrice...
- Archambaud - Gilbert NormanGilbert NormanGilbert Maurice Norman was born 1914 in Saint-Cloud,Hauts-de-Seine to an English father and a French mother and was educated in France and England....
- Aristide - Roger LandesRoger LandesRoger Landes, MC & Bar was an agent and radio operator in the Special Operations Executive , F section...
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- Camille - Virginia HallVirginia HallVirginia Hall, MBE, DSC was an American spy during World War II. She was also known by many aliases: "Marie Monin", "Germaine", "Diane", "Marie of Lyon" and "Camille". The Germans gave her the nickname Artemis...
- Claudine - Mary Katherine HerbertMary Katherine HerbertMary Katherine Herbert was a member of the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section.- Early war service :...
- Colette - Anne-Marie WaltersAnne-Marie WaltersAnne-Marie Walters MBE was a WAAF officer recruited into the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. Her code name was Colette....
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- Dancer - Madeleine DamermentMadeleine DamermentMadeleine Zoe Damerment was a World War II spy.-Biography:...
- Danielle Williams - Denise BlochDenise BlochDenise Madeleine Bloch was a French secret agent working with the British Special Operations Executive in World War II.- Early life :...
- DeanDean (education)In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
- Eliane PlewmanEliane PlewmanEliane Plewman was a French SOE agent and member of French resistance.Plewman was born Eliane Browne-Bartroli in Marseille. The daughter of an English father and Spanish mother, she was educated in England and in Spain... - Denise - Andrée BorrelAndrée BorrelAndrée Raymonde Borrel was a French heroine of World War II.-Early life:Andrée Borrel was born into a working-class family in Louveciennes, Yvelines in the suburbs of Paris, growing up an active girl who liked hiking and most other outdoor activities...
- Diane - Virginia HallVirginia HallVirginia Hall, MBE, DSC was an American spy during World War II. She was also known by many aliases: "Marie Monin", "Germaine", "Diane", "Marie of Lyon" and "Camille". The Germans gave her the nickname Artemis...
- Didi - Eileen NearneEileen NearneEileen Mary "Didi" Nearne MBE, was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive during World War II. She served in occupied France as a radio operator under the codename "Rose".-Early life and career:...
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- Jacqueline Dutetre - Eileen NearneEileen NearneEileen Mary "Didi" Nearne MBE, was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive during World War II. She served in occupied France as a radio operator under the codename "Rose".-Early life and career:...
- Jacqueline Gautier - Yvonne RudelattYvonne RudelattYvonne Rudelatt was a member of the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section.-Early life:...
- Jean - Harry PeulevéHarry PeulevéHenri Leonard Thomas Peulevé DSO, MC was an agent of the Special Operations Executive , who undertook two missions in occupied France and escaped from Buchenwald concentration camp.-Early life:...
- Josette Norville - Jacqueline NearneJacqueline NearneJacqueline Nearne MBE was a secret agent for the British Special Operations Executive in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.-Biography:...
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- La Grande - Elizabeth Devereux-RochesterElizabeth Devereux-RochesterElizabeth Devereux Rochester was a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry who served with the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section.-Early Life:The daughter of American parents, Babe Gunning and Richmond Rochester, Devereux Rochester was...
- La Petite Anglaise - Violette SzaboViolette SzaboViolette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, GC, was a Second World War French-British secret agent.-Early life and marriage:...
- Lise - Odette SansomOdette SansomOdette Sansom Hallowes GC, MBE, Chevalier de la légion d'honneur was an Allied heroine of the Second World War.-Early years:...
- Louise - Violette SzaboViolette SzaboViolette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, GC, was a Second World War French-British secret agent.-Early life and marriage:...
- Lucas - Pierre de VomécourtPierre de VomécourtPierre de Crevoisier de Vomécourt was, during the Second World War, a Special Operations Executive agent, who founded and headed SOE's first Resistance network in occupied France, the AUTOGIRO network....
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- Madamoiselle du Tort - Eileen NearneEileen NearneEileen Mary "Didi" Nearne MBE, was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive during World War II. She served in occupied France as a radio operator under the codename "Rose".-Early life and career:...
- Madeleine - Noor Inayat KhanNoor Inayat KhanAssistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan / Nora Baker, GC, MBE , usually known as Noor Inayat Khan was of Indian Muslim origin...
- Marcel - Jack AgazarianJack AgazarianJack Charles Stanmore Agazarian was a British espionage agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive inside France...
- Marguerite - Lisé de BaissacLisé de BaissacLise Marie Jeanette de Baissac was born in Mauritius of French descent and British nationality. She was a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, a special agent who risked her life running her own operations, but was denied a gallantry award after the war.-Escape...
- Marie - Virginia HallVirginia HallVirginia Hall, MBE, DSC was an American spy during World War II. She was also known by many aliases: "Marie Monin", "Germaine", "Diane", "Marie of Lyon" and "Camille". The Germans gave her the nickname Artemis...
- Marie - Pearl WitheringtonPearl WitheringtonCecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley CBE was a World War II SOE agent born in Paris to British parents.-Wartime service:...
- Marie of Lyons - Virginia HallVirginia HallVirginia Hall, MBE, DSC was an American spy during World War II. She was also known by many aliases: "Marie Monin", "Germaine", "Diane", "Marie of Lyon" and "Camille". The Germans gave her the nickname Artemis...
- Marie-France - Alix D'UnienvilleAlix D'UnienvilleAlix D'Unienville was a member of the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section....
- Marie-Louise - Mary Katherine HerbertMary Katherine HerbertMary Katherine Herbert was a member of the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section.- Early war service :...
- Mariette - Yolande BeekmanYolande BeekmanYolande Beekman was a World War II spy.-Early life:...
- Martine Dussautoy - Madeleine DamermentMadeleine DamermentMadeleine Zoe Damerment was a World War II spy.-Biography:...
- Michéle - Muriel Byck
- Micheline Marcelle Simonet - Patricia O'SullivanPatricia O'SullivanMaureen Patricia "Paddy" O'Sullivan was a member of the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a wireless operator for the French Section....
- Mimi - Yvonne FontaineYvonne FontaineYvonne Fontaine was a member of the French Resistance working with the Special Operations Executive .- Resistance & Special Operations Executive work :...
- Monique - Andrée BorrelAndrée BorrelAndrée Raymonde Borrel was a French heroine of World War II.-Early life:Andrée Borrel was born into a working-class family in Louveciennes, Yvelines in the suburbs of Paris, growing up an active girl who liked hiking and most other outdoor activities...
- Myrtil - Alix D'UnienvilleAlix D'UnienvilleAlix D'Unienville was a member of the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section....
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- Nadine - Lilian RolfeLilian RolfeLilian Vera Rolfe was an Allied secret agent in World War II.-Early life:...
- Nicole - Marguerite KnightMarguerite KnightMarguerite "Peggy" Knight MBE was a member of the Women's Transport Service who served with the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a courier for the French Section....
- Nora BakerNora BakerNora Baker may refer to:* Noor Inayat Khan, British spy who used the alias Nora Baker* Character played by Susan Sarandon in the film White Palace...
- Noor Inayat KhanNoor Inayat KhanAssistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan / Nora Baker, GC, MBE , usually known as Noor Inayat Khan was of Indian Muslim origin... - Nurse - Noor Inayat KhanNoor Inayat KhanAssistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan / Nora Baker, GC, MBE , usually known as Noor Inayat Khan was of Indian Muslim origin...
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- Paulette - Diana RowdenDiana RowdenDiana Hope Rowden MBE was a Special Operations Executive member who was executed in a Nazi concentration camp.-Early life:...
- Pauline - Christine Granville
- Pauline - Pearl WitheringtonPearl WitheringtonCecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley CBE was a World War II SOE agent born in Paris to British parents.-Wartime service:...
- Petit Fils - Louis Bertheau
- Philomene - Virginia HallVirginia HallVirginia Hall, MBE, DSC was an American spy during World War II. She was also known by many aliases: "Marie Monin", "Germaine", "Diane", "Marie of Lyon" and "Camille". The Germans gave her the nickname Artemis...
- Pioneer - Eileen NearneEileen NearneEileen Mary "Didi" Nearne MBE, was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive during World War II. She served in occupied France as a radio operator under the codename "Rose".-Early life and career:...
- Prosper - Francis SuttillFrancis SuttillMajor Francis Alfred Suttill DSO was a British special agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive inside France. He organized and coordinated the Physician network, better known by his own code name Prosper...
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- Sarafan - Yvonne CormeauYvonne CormeauYvonne Cormeau, born Beatrice Yvonne Biesterfeld was a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War who was the second female radio operator to be sent to France and who talked her way out of arrest by pretending her wireless was an X-ray machine.-Early life:Beatrice...
- Simone - Vera LeighVera LeighVera Leigh was a British spy during World War II who assisted the French Resistance. In 1944 she was captured by the Germans and executed.-Early life:...
- Simonet - Patricia O'SullivanPatricia O'SullivanMaureen Patricia "Paddy" O'Sullivan was a member of the Special Operations Executive during World War II and worked as a wireless operator for the French Section....
- Solange - Madeleine DamermentMadeleine DamermentMadeleine Zoe Damerment was a World War II spy.-Biography:...
- Stanislas - Roger LandesRoger LandesRoger Landes, MC & Bar was an agent and radio operator in the Special Operations Executive , F section...
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- Witch - Nancy WakeNancy WakeNancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM , served as a British agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war.-Early life:Born in Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand in...
- Whitebeam - Andrée BorrelAndrée BorrelAndrée Raymonde Borrel was a French heroine of World War II.-Early life:Andrée Borrel was born into a working-class family in Louveciennes, Yvelines in the suburbs of Paris, growing up an active girl who liked hiking and most other outdoor activities...
- White Mouse - Nancy WakeNancy WakeNancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM , served as a British agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war.-Early life:Born in Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand in...