List of SOE agents

The following is an incomplete list of agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive during World War II.

A

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Lorraine Adie	F	BR	1916-		Married American OSS agent Miles Copeland, Jr.
Francine Agazarian	French	British	1913–1999	MiD	Wife of Jack Agazarian
Jack Agazarian	F		1916–1945
Juliane Aisner	French	French	1919-1980s
Roland Alexandre	F		1921–1944
Elisee Allard			1916–1944
Rehavam Amir			1916-
Phillip Amphlett			1921–1945
James Amps			1908–1945
France Antelme	F	Mauritian	1900–1945
Claude Arnault

B

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Dorothy Baden-Powell	Scandinavian	British	1920-		WRNS
Claude de Baissac	F	Mauritian	1907-1974		Brother of Lisé de Baissac and husband of Mary Katherine Herbert
Lisé de Baissac	French	Mauritian	1905–2004		Brother of SOE Agent Claude de Baissac
Madeleine Barclay	French	French	1911–1943		WRNS, KIA aboard HMS Fidelity
Denis Barrett			1916–1944		KIA
Yvonne Baseden	French	British	1922-?	MBE, LdH, CdeG
Alcide Beauregard			1917–1944		KIA
Francis Eugene Bec			1905–1944		KIA
Major Stanley Beckinsale	Crete	British	1920–2004	MC
Yolande Beekman	French	Swiss	1911–1944	MiD	KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Georges Bégué	F	French	1911–1993
Herbert John Bell	Albania/Italy	British	1919- 2001	MM
Robert Benoist	F	French	1895–1944		KIA
Kem Bennett			1919–1986
Louis Bertheau			1919–1945		KIA
Gustave "Guy" Biéler	F	Canadian	1904–1944	DSO MBE
Emanuel Bierer			1884-ukn
Helen Bierer			1885-ukn		Full Name Helen Anna Agate Thormann-Bierer
Andre Bloch			1914–1942		KIA
Denise Bloch	French		1916–1945	KCBC, LdH, CdeG	KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Marcus Bloom			1907-1944
Bridget Blundell			-1999	OBE
Nicholas Bodington	F	British	1904–1974	OBE
Andrée Borrel	French	French	1919–1944	CdeG	KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Jean Bouguennec	F		1912–1944		KIA
Tony Brooks	F	British	1922–2007	DSO, MC, CdeG, LdH
Captain Basil Brown			1918–1970	MBE
Joséf Bublik
Maurice Buckmaster	F	British	1902–1992	MBE, CdeG	F Section Chief
Christopher Burney	F	British	1917–1980	MBE
Pierre Brossolette	F	French	1903–1944	LdH, CdG, CdlL, MdlR
Norman Burley					Real Name: Noel Fernand Rauol Burdeyron
Sonya Butt	French	British	1924-	MBE, MiD	Married fellow SOE agent Guy d'Artois
Muriel Byck	French	British	1918–1944	MiD	Died in service of meningitis at Romorantin Hospital
Robert Bennett Byerly			1916–1944

C

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Eric Cauchi	F Stockbroker	Greek	1917–1944	MiD, CdG, M.R.F.
Francis Cammaerts	F Donkeyman Jockey	British	1916–2006	DSO, LdH, CdeG
William John Chalk			1899-ukn
Robert Arthur Chapman			1901-ukn
Blanche Charlet	French	British	1898-1985	MBE
Marie Thérèse Le Chêne	F	French
Oliver Churchill	Italy	British	1914–1997		Brother of Group Captain Walter Churchill and Captain Peter Churchill
Odette Churchill	F	British			See Odette Sansom
Peter Churchill	F	British	1909–1972		Brother of Group Captain Walter Churchill and Major Oliver Churchill
Arthur Christie		British	1921–2003
Marcel Clech			1905–1944
George Clement			1917–1944
Jean Coleman	F	British	1908–1982
Adolphus Richard Cooper			1899-ukn
Ted Coppin			1915–1943
Yvonne Cormeau	French	British	1909–1997	MBE, LdH, CdeG
Henri Cornioley	F	British	1914–2008		Husband of Pearl Witherington
Noel Coward		British	1899–1972
Andrew Croft	Norway	British	1906–1998	DSO, OBE
Mike Cumberlege			1905-1945

D

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Madeleine Damerment	French	French	1917–1944		KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Guy D'Artois	F	Canadian	1917–1999	DSO, GM, CdeG
Jimmy Davies		British	1913–1940	DFC, MiD	KIA
Marcel Defence			1920–1944
Ange Defendini			1909–1944
George Demand			unk-1944
Delmeire Alphonse	F	Belgian	1919–1944		KIA 7 June 1944 in Germany
Francois Adolphe Deniset			1917–1944
Henri Dericourt	F	French	1909–1962		Possibly a double agent
Julien Detal			unk-1944
Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester	French	British	1917-1983?	LdH, CdeG
Douglas Dodds-Parker		British	1909–2006	LdH, CdeG, MiD
Derek Dodson
Roland Dowlen			1907–1945
André Dubois			1906–1944
Emile Duboudin			1907–1945
Gustave Duclos			1916–2002
Phillip Duclos			1923–1944
Alix D'Unienville	F	Mauritian	1919-
Gavan Bernard Duffy			1916-1990	MC
Pieter Dourlein		Dutch			Escaped back to England and survived war.

E

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Alf Espedal		1914–1969
Reginald Harold Everson		1923–1990

F

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Albert George Falla			1918–1997
Leon Faye
Eugene Felangue			1912–1945
Patrick Leigh Fermor	Crete	British	1915-2011	DSO, OBE
David Finlayson			1923–1944
Yvonne Fontaine	F	French	1913–1996	MdlRF
Marcel Fox			1910–1945
Henri Frager	F	French	1897–1944	MiD, MdlRF	KIA

G

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Henri Gaillot	F		1896–1944		KIA
Albrecht Gaiswinkler	F	Austrian	1905–1979
Harry Gamwell			1912–1998
Emile Garry			1909–1944		KIA
P A H Geelen			1916–1944		KIA
Haim Gerson
Harry Graham			1910–1945		KIA
Sverre Granlund	Norway	Norwegian	1918–1943	DCM, WCS
William Grover-Williams	F	British	1903–1945		KIA
Armel Guerne			1911–1980

H

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Virginia Hall	French	American	1906–1982	MBE, DSC	Post war worked for the CIA
Odette Hallowes	F	British	1912-1995	GC, MBE, CdeG	see Odette Sansom
John Hamilton			1907–1944
John Berisford "Jack" Hayes			1904-
Victor Hayes			1908–1944
Mary Hemmings			1914-
Mary Katherine Herbert	French	Irish	1903–1983		First WAAF Officer to join the SOE
Richard Harry Heslop	F	British	1907-1970	DSO, LdH, CdeG
George Hiller	F	British	1916–1972
Marcel Homet			1897-unk
Desmond Hubble			1910–1944
Max Hymans	F	French	1900–1961

I

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Captain Basil Irwin	Yugoslavia and Italy			MC	Liaison Officer

J

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Peter Johnsen
Sydney Jones			1902–1944
Ginette Julliane
Clement Jumeau			1914–1944

K

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Noor Inyat Khan	French	Russian	1914–1944	GC, MBE, CdeG, MiD	KIA at Dachau concentration camp
Andrzej Kowerski		Polish	1912–1988		also known as Andrew Kennedy
Mary Knowles			1917–2003		also known as Christine
Marguerite Knight	French	British	1920-	MBE

L

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Max Lafaye	F	French	1912–1986	French Resistance Medal	Deported to KL Buchenwald (Jan 1944 - Jan 45)- Dora (Jan 45 - Avr 1945) - Bergen-Belsen (15. Apr. 1945)
A R Landsdell
Maurice Larcher
James Larose
Phyliss Latour	F	British	1921-	MBE, CdeG
Huub Lauwers		Dutch	1915-2004		Escaped back to England and survived war.
Madeleine Lavigne	F	French	unk-1945
Marcel Leccia
Jacques Paul Henri Ledoux
Christopher Lee			1922-
Lionel Lee
Cecily Lefort	French	British	1900–1945	CdeG, MiD	KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Vera Leigh	French	British	1903–1944	KCBC	KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
M A Lepage
E Lesout
Paul Emile Labelle	French	Canadian	1916-UKN	Military Cross	Codename Nartex

M

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Amédée Maingard	F	Mauritian	1918–1981	DSO, CdeG
Claude Raymond Malraux
Andre Adrian Jules Maugenet
Comte Jacques-Arthus Marc de Montalembert
Ernest Miller
Gavin Maxwell	Instructor	British	1914–1969
James Andrew Mayer
James Francis George Mennesson
Francois Gerard Michel
George Millar	F	British	DSO MC	DSO MC
G B McBain
John Kenneth Macalister	F	Canadian	1914–1944		KIA
S Makowski
R M A Mathieu
W. Stanley Moss	Crete	British	1919–1964	MC
Pierre Louis Mulsant
Buntie Aurelle Neredah Macklin-Sprake

N

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Eileen Nearne	French	British	1921–2010	MBE, CdeG	Sister of SOE agents Jacqueline & Francis Nearne
Francis Nearne	F	British			Brother of SOE agents Eileen & Jacqueline Nearne
Jacqueline Nearne	French	British	1916–1982	MBE	Sister of SOE agents Eileen & Francis Nearne
Isidore Newman
Alfred Newton
Henry Newton
Gilbert Norman	F	British	1914–1944		KIA

O

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Sonia Olschanezky	French	Russian/French	1923–1944		KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Patricia O'Sullivan	French	British	1918–1994	CdG, MBE	WAAF

P

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Paul Baptiste Pardi
Maurice Pertschuk
Harry Peulevé	F	British	1916–1963	DSO, MC
Frank Pickersgill	F	Canadian	1915–1944		KIA
Eliane Plewman	French	British	1917–1944	KCBC, CdeG	KIA at Dachau concentration camp

Q

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Anthony Quayle	Albania	British	1913–1989

R

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Adolphie Rabinovitch
Alex Rabinovich
Brain Dominic Rafferty
Charles Rechenmann
Harry Rée	F	British	1914-1991	DSO, OBE
Haviva Reik	Slovakia	Slovakian	1914–1944		KIA
Jean Renaud-Dandicolle
Anne Robertson			1920-
Lilian Rolfe	French	British	1914–1945	MBE, CdeG, MiD	KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Jasper Rootham	Yugoslavia	British	1910–1990
Diana Rowden	French	British	1915–1944	MBE, CdeG, MiD	KIA at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Yvonne Rudelatt	French	French	1897–1945		Died in service of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

S

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Roméo Sabourin	F	Canadian	1923–1944		KIA
Odette Sansom	French	British	1912–1995	GC, MBE, LdH	Also known by the surnames "Hallowes" and "Churchill"
Paul F M Sarrette
Alexandre Schwatschko
Enzo Sereni	Italy	Italian	1905–1944		KIA
Henri P. Sevenet
Jack Andrew Eugene Marcel Sinclair
Jean Alexandre Robert Simon
Octave Anne Guillaume Simon
Krystyna Skarbek	French	Polish	1915–1952	GM, OBE, CdeG	Better known by her pseudonm Christine Granville
Brian Skelly			1920–2001
Charles Milne Skepper
Einar Skinnarland	Norway	Norwegian	1918–2002	DCM
V. A. Soskice
Maurice Southgate
James William Spencer			1915-|
M J G de St Genies
Arthur Staggs
George Reginald Starr	F	British	1904–1980	MD, DSO	Brother of John Renshaw Starr
John Renshaw Starr	F	British	unk-1996		Brother of George Reginald Starr
Arthur Steele
Brian Stonehouse	F	British	1918–1998	MBE
Francis Suttill	F	British	1910–1945	DSO	KIA
Violette Szabo	French	British	1921–1945	GC, MBE, CdeG	KIA at Ravensbrück concentration camp
Hannah Szenes	Yugoslavia	Hungarian	1921–1944		KIA in Budapest

T

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Jacques Taschereau
P R Tessier
Paul-Émile Thibeault
Michael Trotobas

U

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
P L Ullman

V

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
François Vallée
Philippe de Vomécourt
Arie Van Duyn

W

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Nancy Wake	French	Australian	1912-2011	GC, LdH, CdeG	Known by her code name "White Mouse"
Anne-Marie Walters	French	British	1923–1998	MBE, CdeG
Peter Wand-Tetley
David Whytehead Sibrée
Odette Wilen	French
E M Wilkinson
George Alfred "Teddy" Wilkinson
Jean-Pierre Wimille	F	French	1908–1949
Pearl Witherington	French	British	1914–2008	MBE, CBE, CdeG
Jean Worms
Dagmar Witherspoon

Y

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas	F	British	1902–1964	GC, MC*, CdeG, CLdH	Best known by his code name "White Rabbit"
John Young
John Cuthbert Young

Z

Name	SOE Section	Nationality	Born-Died	Awards	Notes
Robert Charles Zaehner	Iran	British	1913–74		Worked for Mi6 after the war
Guido Zembsh-Schreve			1916-

See Also

• List of female SOE agents
• SOE F Section networks