The following is an incomplete list of agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive during World War II.
A NameSOE SectionNationalityBorn–DiedAwardsNotes Norway Norwegian 1917-1988 Member of the "Aakre Gang." Participated in Operation CarhamptonElizabeth Lorraine Adie (Lorraine Copeland) 1916–2013 Married American OSS agent Miles Copeland, Jr. Francine Agazarian 1913–1998 FGS, MiD, WM, ST Courier. Landed in France by aircraft in March 1943. Wife of Jack Agazarian, a Wireless Operator with Prosper circuit. Jack Agazarian 1916–1945Killed in concentration camp March 1945. Armenian father and French mother, brother of the RAF fighter ace Noel Agazarian Juliane Aisner 1919–1947 Roland Alexandre 1921–1944 Elisee Allard 1916–1944 Rehavam Amir 1916–2013 [this is SIS/ISLD, not SOE] Phillip Amphlett 1921–1945 James Amps 1908–1945 Previously a jockey. Had a French wife, after easing out of circuit was implicated in documents found in 1943 when other agents arrested. France Antelme 1900–1945 Captured when landed in France and killed at Gross-Rosen concentration camp Claude Arnault Benjamin Aptaker 21.8.1923–2.9.2012 FGS, MiD, WM, ST CdeG, DM Section Captain flown into France night parachute in 6.3.1944, posted to Dachau 1945, Judge Advocate General's Branch 1945-46 (Germany) (A/Major), Codename Aleric, Gardener Circuit (w/t operator) Name changed to Roger Forster after his first marriage. Family Originally from Ukraine Immigrants in the early 1900's to UK
B NameSOE SectionNationalityBorn-DiedAwardsNotes Dorothy Baden-Powell 1920–unk WRNS Claude de Baissac 1907–1974 Brother of Lisé de Baissac and husband of Mary Katherine Herbert Lisé de Baissac 1905–2004 LdH, CdeG Sister of SOE Agent Claude de Baissac, Portrayed as Louise Desfontaines in the movie Female Agents (Les Femmes de l'ombre). Giliana Balmaceda The first female SOE agent to be sent to occupied France (sent in May 1941). Instrumental in gathering intelligence and important documents such as rations cards for implementing safe houses, routes, and sustenance for field agents. Married Victor Gerson after the war. Madeleine Barclay (Madeleine Victorine Bayard) 1911–1943 WRNS, Killed when HMS Fidelity was sunk by U-boat 1916–1944 arrested in 1944, shot at Buchenwald 5 October 1944 Eric Barrett Force 136 GHi(k) 1910–1975 Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden 1922–2017 CdeG, FGS, LdH, MBE, MR, ST, WM At age 18, joined WAAF. Wireless Operator. Codename : Odette. Parachuted into SW France near the village of Gabarret in March 1944. Later known as Yvonne Burney. Taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp, survived, taken in by the Swedish Red Cross, then released home by Vera Atkins. Charles Noel Beattie 1939–1946 MiD Alcide Beauregard 1917–1944 MiD Captured by Germans. Killed in Saint-Genis-Laval massacre 20 August 1944 Francis Section F, Headmaster British 1905–1944 Killed in action when Germans carried out attack on maquis of Charnie 16 June 1944 Stanley Beckinsale 1920–2004MC Yolande Beekman 1911–1944 CdeG, MiD Wireless Operator, member of Women's Auxiliary Air Force, flown into France in September 1943, Codename : Mariette, Kilt. Killed at Dachau concentration camp with Madeleine Damerment, Noor Inayat Khan, and Eliane Plewman Georges Bégué 1911–1993 Wireless operator; first SOE agent infiltrated into France. Herbert John Bell 1919–2001 MM John S. Bennett 1911–1970 CBE, CVO Led SOE's Yugoslav section after joining Section D. Robert Benoist 1895–1944 arrested June 1944. Executed at Buchenwald concentration camp on 14 September 1944 Kem Bennett 1919–1986 Louis Bertheau 1919–1945 MiD KIA Gustave "Guy" Biéler 1904–1944 DSO MBE Emanuel Bierer 1884–unk Helen Bierer 1885–unk Full Name: Helen Anna Agate Thormann-Bierer Andre Bloch 1914–1942 KIA Denise Madeleine Bloch 1916–1945 KCBC, LdH, CdeGKilled at Ravensbrück concentration camp with Lilian Rolfe and Violette Szabo Marcus Bloom 1907–1944 MiD Killed at Mauthausen concentration camp Bridget Blundell unk–1999 MBE Nicholas Bodington 1904–1974 MBE Nestor BodsonEnglandBelgian1921-1942shot by firing squad 5 December 1942 in Bruxelles-Schaerbeek Andrée Borrel 1919–1944 CdeG, MR, KCBC Courier. Codenames : Monique, Denise Urbain. KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp Jean Bouguennec 1912–1944 KIA Edwin Boxshall 1897–1984 MBE Longest-serving British intelligence officer, custodian of SOE archives (1959–1982) Tony Brooks British 1922–2007 DSO, MC, CdeG, LdH Captain Basil Brown 1918–1970 MBE Albert Browne-Bartroli French 1915-1967 DSO, CdeG Carl Johan Bruhn 1904-1941 Died during the first attempt at drop-off with a parachute in Denmark by SOE agents. Joséf Bublik Maurice Buckmaster 1902–1992 MBE, CdeG F Section Chief Christopher Burney 1917–1980 MBE Norman Burley Real Name: Noel Fernand Rauol Burdeyron Sonya Butt 1924–2014 MBE, MiD Courier. Married fellow SOE agent Guy D'Artois Muriel Byck 1918–1944 MiD Died in service of meningitis at Romorantin Hospital Robert Bennett Byerly 1916–1944
C NameSOE SectionNationalityBorn-DiedAwardsNotes Eric Cauchi F, Stockbroker 1917–1944 MiD, CdeG, M.R.F. Francis Cammaerts F, Donkeyman, Jockey 1916–2006 DSO, LdH, CdeG Maddalena CerasuoloHS 9/284 - Special Operations Executive personnel files, The National Archives, UK No.1 SF 1920–1999 Bronze Medal of Military Valor (Italy)Days of Naples Code name: Maria Esposito, C22; sabotage missions, resistant(IT) Maddalena Cerasuolo, l’eroina delle 4 Giornate lavorò per i servizi inglesi, on repubblica.it William John Chalk 1899–unk Robert Arthur Chapman 1901–unk Valentine Blanche Charlet 1898–1985 MBE Courier. Served with Women's Transport Service.Pierre Chassé 1923–1988 Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) Distinguished Service Order (DSO) Croix de Guerre avec palmes 1939-45 (France) Marie-Thérèse Le Chêne 1890-unk MBE, CdeG Arthur Christie 1921–2003 Kjeld Toft-Christensen 1910–1945 MC, Committed suicide on 27 November 1945. Oliver Churchill 1914–1997 DSO, MC, Italian Partisan Medal Brother of Group Captain Walter Churchill and Captain Peter Churchill Peter Churchill 1909–1972 DSO, CdeG Brother of Group Captain Walter Churchill and Major Oliver ChurchillMarcel Clech 1905–1944 wireless operator. arrested and executed at Mauthausen concentration camp. George Clement 1917–1944 Jean Coleman 1908–1982 Adolphus Richard Cooper 1899–unk Ted Coppin 1915–1943 Yvonne Cormeau 1909–1997 CdeG, DM, GS, MBE, LdH, War Medal 1939-1945, ST Joined Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Courier and Wireless Operator. The 2nd female Wireless Operator to be sent to France. Parachuted into St Antoine du Queyret in SW France in August 1943. Evaded arrest by convincing the enemy that her radio was an X-Ray Machine. Codenames : Annette, Fairy, Sarafari. Henri Cornioley 1914–2008 Husband of Pearl Witherington Noël Coward 1899–1972 Benjamin Cowburn 1909–1994 MC and Bar, LdH, CdeG Four successful missions into FranceJørgen Robert Christensen 1921–2004 Frogman, co-founder of the Danish Frogman Corps and second in command from 1957 to 1970 Andrew Croft 1906–1998 DSO, MBE Mike Cumberlege Force 133 1905–1945 DSO and Bar, RD after capture and torture by the Germans
D NameSOE SectionNationalityBorn-DiedAwardsNotes Madeleine Damerment 1917–1944 at Dachau concentration camp with Yolande Beekman, Noor Inayat Khan, and Eliane Plewman Guy D'Artois 1917–1999 DSO, GM, CdeG Married fellow SOE agent Sonya Butt Jimmy Davies 1913–1940 DFC, MiDKIA Marcel Defence 1920–1944 1909–1944 George Demand 1921–1944 Delmeire Alphonse 1919–1944 KIA 7 June 1944 in Germany Francois Adolphe Deniset 1917–1944 Henri Dericourt 1909–1962 Possibly a double agent Freddi Desmet 1912–1946 Real Name: Christiaan Lindemans Julien Detal unk–1944 Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester 1917 – 1983? LdH, CdeG Courier. Born to American parents. Codename : Typist, FANY Henri Diacono F, Spiritualist Wireless Operator. Douglas Dodds-Parker Abyssinia 1909–2006 LdH, CdeG, MiD field service, then senior staff officer Derek Dodson Leo Donati 1919–1972 Hugh Dormer 1919–1944 DSO Left SOE in January 1944 (KIA serving with Irish Guards in August 1944). Roland Dowlen 1907–1945 Joan Lois Dowson 1924 - 2010 G.M., CdeG, C.B.E. late of Girton College, Cambridge André Dubois 1906–1944 Emile Duboudin 1907–1945 Gustave Duclos 1916–2002 MC, CdeG, LdH, EM, MR, Corps Expéditionnaire Français d’Extrême Orient, Croix du Combattant, Croix de Guerre Théâtres d’Opération Extérieurs Phillip Duclos 1923–1944 Alix D'Unienville 1919–unk Archie Dunlop-Mackenzie Britain, Mihailovic and the Chetniks, 1941-42 - Page 21 Gavan Bernard Duffy 1916–1990 MC Lucien Dumais MC, CdeG, LdH In charge of Shelburn Line (Shelbourne Line) Operation Bonaparte Escaped back to England and survived war.
E NameSOE SectionNationalityBorn-DiedAwardsNotes Alf Espedal Norwegian Independent Company 1 Norwegian 1914–1969 Trained in STS 26 at Glen More and other Special Training Schools. In charge of "Operation Osprey" that parachuted in Rogaland county on Dec. 10 1943. Reginald Harold Everson 1923–1990 Francois Michelle William Reeve
F NameSOE SectionNationalityBorn-DiedAwardsNotes Albert George Falla Guernsey 1915–1996 Italy, Africa & 39-45 Stars Worked for MI6 after War until Retirement Eugene Felangue 1912–1945 Patrick Leigh Fermor 1915–2011 DSO, MBE David Finlayson 1923–1944 Yvonne Fontaine 1913–1996 MdlRF 1910–1945 CdeG, LdH, MiD, MR Reg # : 257605. Codename : Georges, Ernest. Deported to and KIA in Flossenbürg Henri Frager 1897–1944 MiD, MdlRF KIA Louis Francou also known as Bullfrog
G NameSOE SectionNationalityBorn-DiedAwardsNotes Henri Gaillot 1896–1944 KIA (also known as "Ignace" or "Guillaume") Albrecht Gaiswinkler France Austrian 1905–1979 Harry Gamwell 1912–1998 Syracuse, Bari, Alexandria, Yugoslavia. Emile Garry 1909–1944 KIA P A H Geelen 1916–1944 KIAOle Geisler 1913–1948 DSO From 1943 head of SOE's work in Jutland. Victor Gerson 1896–? DSO, LdHOrganised the Vic escape line in France into neutral Spain. Married Giliana Balmaceda after the war Alfredo Mechoulam Gerassi Portugal/Spain/France France 1902-1995 King's Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom François de Langlade 1904–1991 Paul Goffin 1915–1967 also known as Gofer John G. Goldsmith 1909–1972 DSO, MC, CdeG, LdH See "Accidental Agent" memoir published 1971.Malby E. G. Goodman 1917–2015 Harry Graham 1910–1945 KIA André Grandclément 1908–1944 Executed as a double agent Christine Granville (Krystyna Skarbek) 1908 - 1952 OBE, GM, Croix de Guerre Courier. Operated under the name "Madame Pauline" in France. One of the longest serving of Britain's wartime women agents. Parachuted into SE France in July 1944. One of the few SOE female field agents promoted to captain. Killed in 1952 by man who had become obsessed with her. Sverre Granlund 1918–1943 DCM, WCS William Grover-Williams 1903–1945 Captured and executed at Sachsenhausen Jacques Vaillant de Guélis 1997-1945 MBE, Military Cross, Croix de Guerre Died from an automobile accident on 7 August 1945 Armel Guerne 1911–1980 René Dumont-Guillemet F, Spiritualist Organizer of Spiritualist circuit.
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