Vera Atkins & the women of "F" Section Special Operations Executive

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Reference WMO/279209

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Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove

National Memorial Arboretum

Croxall Road

Alrewas

Burton-on-Trent

DE13 7AR

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Composite
Materials:
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Squadron Leader Vera Atkins and the women of "F" (French SOE) section memorial seat. Special Operations Executive WW2 Vera May Atkins CBE was a British intelligence officer who worked in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War. This memorial was dedicated in September 2011. After the war Vera Atkins joined up with unofficial Special Air Service soldiers to find out what was the fate of her agents. In memory of Vera Atkins - Special Operations Executive Madeleine Bayard - Womens Royal Naval Service (WRENS) Yolanda Beekman - Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) Denise Bloch - First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) Andree Borrel - FANY Muriel Byck - WAAF Madeleine Damerment - FANY Noor Inyat-Khan - WAAF Cecily Lefort - FANY Vera Leigh - FANY Sonia Olschanezky - Recruited in France Eliane Plewman - FANY Lillian Rolfe - WAAF Diana Rowden - WAAF Yvonne Rudellat - FANY Violette Szabo - FANY "They risked their lives and fought for us. We owe it to their relatives to find out what happened to them."
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16 individual plaques listing Vera Atkins and the 15 agents of SOE who lost their lives. The plaques contain the names, codenames and parent unit that they were attached during WW2. Vera Atkins - Special Operations Executive Madeleine Bayard - Womens Royal Naval Service (WRENS) Yolanda Beekman - Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) Denise Bloch - First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) Andree Borrel - FANY Muriel Byck - WAAF Madeleine Damerment - FANY Noor Inyat-Khan - WAAF Cecily Lefort - FANY Vera Leigh - FANY Sonia Olschanezky - Recruited in France Eliane Plewman - FANY Lillian Rolfe - WAAF Diana Rowden - WAAF Yvonne Rudellat - FANY Violette Szabo - FANY

Vera Atkins - Special Operations Executive Madeleine Bayard - Womens Royal Naval Service (WRENS) Yolanda Beekman - Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) Denise Bloch - First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) Andree Borrel - FANY Muriel Byck - WAAF Madeleine Damerment - FANY Noor Inyat-Khan - WAAF Cecily Lefort - FANY Vera Leigh - FANY Sonia Olschanezky - Recruited in France Eliane Plewman - FANY Lillian Rolfe - WAAF Diana Rowden - WAAF Yvonne Rudellat - FANY Violette Szabo - FANY

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