The Valençay SOE Memorial is a monument to the members of the Special Operations Executive

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...

 F Section who lost their lives for the liberation of France. The memorial was unveiled in the town of Valençay

Valençay

Valençay is a commune in the Indre department in central France.-Geography:Valençay is situated in the Loire Valley on a hillside overlooking the River Nahon.-History:...

 in the Indre

Indre

Indre is a department in the center of France named after the river Indre. The inhabitants of the department are called Indriens.-History:Indre is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...

 département of France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 on May 6, 1991, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the despatch of F Section's first agent to France. It was designed by Elizabeth Lucas Harrison, who originally gave it the name 'Spirit of Partnership'. Dedicated by the Minister of Veterans Affairs for France and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...

, the memorial's Roll of Honour lists the names of the 91 men and 13 women members of the SOE who gave their lives for France's freedom.

Valençay Memorial's Roll of Honour:

1. Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian
   Jack Agazarian
   Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian was a British espionage agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive inside France...
   
   
2. Roland Eugene Jean Alexandre
3. Elisee A. L. Allard
4. Phillip John Amphlett
5. James Frederick Amps
6. Joseph Antoine France Antelme
   France Antelme
   Major Joseph Antoine France Antelme OBE was one of 14 Franco-Mauritians who served in the Special Operations Executive , a World War II British secret service that sent spies, saboteurs and guerrilla fighters into enemy-occupied territory.After spying in Vichy-held Madagascar ahead of the allied...
   
   
7. Denis John Barrett
8. Alcide Beauregard
9. Francisque Eugene Bec
10. Yolande Elsa Maria Beekman
    Yolande Beekman
    Yolande Beekman was a World War II spy.-Early life:...
    
    
11. Robert Marcel Charles Benoist
    Robert Benoist
    Robert Marcel Charles Benoist was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero.-Early life:Born near Rambouillet, Île-de-France, France, Robert Benoist was the son of Baron Henri de Rothschild's gamekeeper...
    
    
12. Louis Eugene Desire Bertheau
13. Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler
    Gustave Biéler
    Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler DSO MBE was a Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.Gustave Bieler was born in Beurlay in France. At the age of twenty, he emigrated to Canada where he settled in the city of Montreal working as a school teacher and then as an official translator for...
    
    
14. Andre G. Bloch
15. Denise Madeleine Bloch
    Denise Bloch
    Denise Madeleine Bloch was a French secret agent working with the British Special Operations Executive in World War II.- Early life :...
    
    
16. Marcus R. Bloom
17. Andrée Raymonde Borrel
    Andrée Borrel
    Andrée 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...
    
    
18. Jean Bouguennec
19. Muriel Tamara Byck
20. Robert Bennett Byerly
21. Eric Joseph Denis Cauchi
22. Marcel Clech
23. George Clement
24. Ted Cyril Coppin
25. Madeleine Zoe Damerment
    Madeleine Damerment
    Madeleine Zoe Damerment was a World War II spy.-Biography:...
    
    
26. Marcel Enzebe Defence
27. Ange Defendini
28. George William Hedworth Demand
29. Francois Adolphe Deniset
30. Julien Theodore Joseph M. Detal
31. Roland Dowlen
32. André J. R. Dubois
33. Emile George Jean Duboudin
34. Phillip Francis Duclos
35. David Haughton Finlayson
36. Marcel Georges Florent Fox
37. Henri Jacques Paul Frager
38. Henri Hubert Gaillot
39. Emile August Henri Garry
40. P.A.H. Geelen
41. Harry Huntington Graham
42. William Charles Frederick Grover-Williams
    William Grover-Williams
    William Charles Frederick Grover-Williams , also known as "W Williams", was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and special agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive inside France. He organized and coordinated the Chestnut network...
    
    
43. John Trevor Hamilton
44. Victor Charles Hayes
45. Noor Inayat Khan
    Noor Inayat Khan
    Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan / Nora Baker, GC, MBE , usually known as Noor Inayat Khan was of Indian Muslim origin...
    
    
46. Sydney Charles Jones
47. Clement Marc Jumeau
48. A. R. Landsdell
49. Maurice Louis M. A. Larcher
50. Marcel Mathieu René Leccia
51. Jacques Paul Henri Ledoux
52. Lionel Lee
53. Cecily Margot Lefort
    Cecily Lefort
    Cecily 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...
    
    
54. Vera Eugenie Leigh
    Vera Leigh
    Vera 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:...
    
    
55. M. A. Lepage
56. E. Lesout
57. Eugene Francis (Levene) Felangue
58. John Kenneth Macalister
    John Kenneth Macalister
    John Kenneth Macalister was a Canadian hero of World War II.Ken Macalister graduated the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute and from the University of Toronto, then as a Rhodes Scholar studied at Oxford University...
    
    
59. S. Makowski
60. Claude Raymond Malraux
61. R. M. A. Mathieu
62. Andre Adrian Jules Maugenet
63. James Andrew Mayer
64. G. B. McBain
65. James Francis George Mennesson
66. Francois Gerard Michel
67. Comte Jacques-Arthus Marc de Montalembert
68. Pierre Louis Mulsant
69. Isidore Newman
70. Gilbert Maurice Norman
    Gilbert Norman
    Gilbert 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....
    
    
71. Paul Baptiste Pardi
72. Maurice Pertschuk
73. Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill
    Frank Pickersgill
    Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill is a Canadian hero of World War II....
    
    
74. Elaine Sophie Plewman
    Eliane Plewman
    Eliane 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...
    
    
75. Adolphie Rabinovitch
76. Brain Dominic Rafferty
77. Charles Rechenmann
78. Jean Renaud
    Jean Renaud
    Jean Renaud is first noted in Canadian history in 1768 when he married at Quebec City. He owned property and was a merchant...
    
    
79. Jean Renaud-Dandicolle
80. Lilian Verna Rolfe
    Lilian Rolfe
    Lilian Vera Rolfe was an Allied secret agent in World War II.-Early life:...
    
    
81. Diana Hope Rowden
    Diana Rowden
    Diana Hope Rowden MBE was a Special Operations Executive member who was executed in a Nazi concentration camp.-Early life:...
    
    
82. Yvonne Claire Rudellat
83. Roméo Sabourin
    Roméo Sabourin
    Roméo Sabourin is a Canadian hero of World War II.Lieutenant Sabourin joined the Canadian Army, serving in the Canadian Intelligence Corps...
    
    
84. M. J. G. de St.Genies
85. Paul F. M. Sarrette
86. Alexandre Schwatschko
87. Henri P. Sevenet
88. David Whytehead Sibrée
89. Jean Alexandre Robert Simon
90. Octave Anne Guillaume Simon
91. Jack Andrew Eugene Marcel Sinclair
92. Charles Milne Skepper
93. V. A. Soskice
94. Arthur Steele
95. Francis Alfred Suttill
    Francis Suttill
    Major 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...
    
    
96. Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo
    Violette Szabo
    Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, GC, was a Second World War French-British secret agent.-Early life and marriage:...
    
    
97. P. R. Tessier
98. Michael Alfred Raymond Trotobas
99. P.L. Ullman
100. François M. C. Vallée
101. E. M. Wilkinson
102. George Alfred "Teddy" Wilkinson
103. Jean Worms
104. John Cuthbert Young