Valençay SOE Memorial

The Valençay SOE Memorial is a monument in France to the members of the Special Operations Executive F Section who lost their lives working to liberate the country during World War II.

The memorial was unveiled in the town of Valençay, in the department of Indre, on May 6, 1991, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the despatch of F Section's first agent to France.

Former SOE agents Pearl Witherington Cornioley and her husband Henri, who lived nearby, promoted the establishment of the memorial. Witherington had worked in the area as a SOE agent during World war II. The monument was designed by Elizabeth Lucas Harrison, herself a former Resistance member, who originally gave it the name "Spirit of Partnership".

Dedicated by the Minister of Veterans Affairs for France and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 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 Roll of Honour
(from website: SOE and Valençay Monument )


 * Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian
 * Roland_Alexandre
 * %C3%89lis%C3%A9e_Allard
 * Phillip_Amphlett
 * James_Amps
 * Joseph Antoine France Antelme
 * John Barrett (SOE)
 * Alcide_Beauregard
 * Eug%C3%A8ne_Bec
 * Yolande Elsa Maria Beekman
 * Robert Marcel Charles Benoist
 * Louis_Bertheau
 * Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler
 * Andr%C3%A9_Bloch_(SOE)
 * Denise Madeleine Bloch
 * Marcus Reginald Bloom
 * Andrée Raymonde Borrel
 * Jean_Bouguennec
 * Muriel Tamara Byck
 * Robert Bennett Byerly
 * %C3%89ric_Cauchi
 * Marcel Clech
 * Georges_Cl%C3%A9ment_(r%C3%A9sistant)
 * Ted Cyril Coppin
 * Madeleine Zoe Damerment
 * Marcel_Defence
 * Ange_Defendini
 * George_Demand
 * Fran%C3%A7ois_Deniset
 * Julien_Detal
 * Roland_Dowlen
 * Andr%C3%A9_Dubois_(SOE)
 * Émile Georges Jean Duboudin
 * Philippe_Duclos_(SOE)
 * David_Finlayson
 * Marcel_Fox
 * Henri Jacques Paul Frager
 * Henri_Gaillot
 * Henri_Garry
 * Pierre_Geelen
 * Harry Graham (SOE)
 * William Charles Frederick Grover-Williams
 * John_Hamilton_(agent_secret)
 * Charles_Hayes_(SOE)
 * Noor Inayat Khan
 * Sidney Charles Jones
 * Cl%C3%A9ment_Jumeau
 * A. R. Landsdell
 * Maurice_Larcher
 * Marcel_Leccia
 * Jacques_Ledoux_(SOE)
 * Lionel_Lee
 * Cecily Margot Lefort
 * Vera Eugenie Leigh
 * Maurice_Lepage_(agent_secret)
 * E. Lesout
 * Eug%C3%A8ne_Levene
 * John Kenneth Macalister
 * Stanislaw_Makowski
 * Claude_Malraux
 * R. M. A. Mathieu
 * Andre Adrian Jules Maugenet
 * James Andrew Mayer
 * G. B. McBain
 * Jean_Menesson
 * Fran%C3%A7ois_Michel
 * Comte Jacques-Arthus Marc de Montalembert
 * Pierre_Mulsant
 * Isidore Newman
 * Gilbert Maurice Norman
 * Paul_Pardi
 * Maurice Pertschuk
 * Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill
 * Éliane Sophie Plewman
 * Adolphe Rabinovitch
 * Brian_Rafferty
 * Charles_Rechenmann
 * Jean_Renaud_(SOE)
 * Jean_Renaud-Dandicolle
 * Lilian Vera Rolfe
 * Diana Hope Rowden
 * Yvonne Claire Rudellat
 * Roméo Sabourin
 * Gonzague de Saint-Geniès
 * Paul_Sarrette
 * Alexandre Schwatschko
 * Henri Sevenet
 * David Whytehead Sibrée
 * Jean Alexandre Robert Simon
 * Octave Anne Guillaume Simon
 * Jack Andrew Eugene Marcel Sinclair
 * Charles Milne Skepper
 * V. A. Soskice
 * Arthur Steele
 * Francis Alfred Suttill
 * Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo
 * Paul Tessier (SOE)
 * Michael Alfred Raymond Trotobas
 * Paul Ullman
 * Fran%C3%A7ois_Vall%C3%A9e_(r%C3%A9sistant)
 * Edward Wilkinson (SOE agent)
 * George_Alfred_Wilkinson
 * Jean_Worms_(r%C3%A9sistant)
 * John_Young_(SOE)