| Cecily Lefort | |
|---|---|
| April 30, 1900 – May 1, 1945 | |
| Nickname | Agent Jockey, Alice |
| Place of birth | London |
| Place of death | Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom, France |
| Service/branch | Special Operations Executive, French Resistance |
| Years of service | 1943-1945 |
| Rank | Field agent and guerrilla commander |
| Commands held | SOE F Section networks#Jockey |
| Awards | Croix de Guerre, Mentioned in Dispatches |
Cecily Margot Lefort (April 30, 1900 – February, 1945) was a heroine of World War II. Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Ravensbrück (ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk was a notorious women's Concentration camp during in World War II, located in northern Germany 90 km north of Berlin The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Special Operations Executive ( SOE) (sometimes referred to as "the Baker Street Irregulars " after Sherlock Holmes ' fictional group of helpers The French Resistance is the collective name used for the French Resistance movements which fought against the Nazi German These are the networks, also known as circuits, (or réseaux to their French participants established in France by F Section of the British Special Operations The Croix de Guerre (sometimes lowercase in French Croix de guerre, meaning "Cross of War" is a military decoration of both France and Mentioned in Despatches (MID is a Military award for gallantry or otherwise commendable service Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
Born in London of Scottish ancestry, Lefort lived on the coast of Brittany in France from the age of 24 with her French husband, Dr. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Brittany (Breizh bʁejs Bretagne; Gallo: Bertaèyn) is a former independent Celtic kingdom and Duchy, now incorporated into This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Alex Lefort. When World War II broke out she fled occupied France and went to England where she and her husband made their home in Brittany available for the underground resistance to use as part of an escape line for downed British airmen and others needing to get out of occupied France.
In 1941, Lefort joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force. The following year, as someone fluent in the French language, she volunteered to serve with the F Section (France) of the Special Operations Executive based in London. The Special Operations Executive ( SOE) (sometimes referred to as "the Baker Street Irregulars " after Sherlock Holmes ' fictional group of helpers On the night of June 16, 1943, together with fellow SOE agents Diana Rowden and Noor Inayat Khan, she was flown to Le Mans in France where they were met by Henri Dericourt. Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Diana Hope Rowden (31 January 1915 - 6 July 1944 was a Special Operations Executive (SOE member who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC, MBE, ( 1 January 1914, Moscow - 13 September 1944, Dachau concentration Le Mans (ləmɑ̃ in French) is a city in France, located on the Sarthe River. Henri Dericourt (1909-1962 was a French agent for Special Operations Executive. Trained as a courier, once there she was sent to south eastern France where she worked for the "Jockey" network run by Francis Cammaerts. Francis Charles Albert Cammaerts ( 16 June 1916 &ndash 3 July 2006) was an outstanding Special Operations Executive ( SOE
On September 15, 1943, while meeting with a contact in the city of Montélimar in the southerly département of Drôme, Lefort was arrested by the Gestapo. Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Montélimar ( Latin name Acumum and Montelaimar in Occitan) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division The ( contraction of ge heime Sta ats' po' lizei: "Secret State Police" was the official Secret police of Nazi Germany After being subjected to a ruthless interrogation and torture, she was sent north to the Fresnes prison in Paris. Fresnes Prison ( Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest Prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Then, a few months later in early 1944, she was shipped to Ravensbrück concentration camp about 50 miles from Berlin. Ravensbrück (ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk was a notorious women's Concentration camp during in World War II, located in northern Germany 90 km north of Berlin Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people commonly in large groups without trial Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Ravensbrück had a gas chamber and crematorium, and at the end of 1944, when the German defeat was imminent, the place became a frantic killing center. A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing consisting of a sealed chamber into which a Poisonous or Asphyxiant gas is introduced Cremation is the act of reducing a Corpse by burning, generally in a crematorium furnace or crematory fire
Held in a prison with 30,000 women and children, on her prison uniform Lefort had to wear the red triangle patch identifying her as a resistance worker. Living in subhuman conditions, every day the prisoners were made to toil for hours doing such things as paving the streets by pulling a huge iron roller. Suffering from extreme malnutrition and exhaustion, Lefort was deemed by the Germans to no longer be of any value and she was gassed in February, 1945.
Three other female members of the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe, and Violette Szabo. Denise Madeleine Bloch (died 1945 Ravensbrück, Germany) was a British secret agent in World War II. Lilian Vera Rolfe ( April 26, 1914, Paris France - February 5, 1945, Ravensbrück, Germany) was an Allied Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, GC (26 June 1921 &ndash c
Lefort was honored by the government of France with a posthumous Croix de Guerre. The Croix de Guerre (sometimes lowercase in French Croix de guerre, meaning "Cross of War" is a military decoration of both France and She is recorded on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England, and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, she is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre departément of France. The Air Forces Memorial, or Runnymede Memorial, near Egham, Surrey, England is a memorial dedicated to some 20456 men and women from the Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The Valençay SOE Memorial is a monument to the members of the Special Operations Executive F Section who lost their lives for the liberation of France Valençay is a commune in the Indre department in central France. Indre is a department in the center of France named after the Indre River.
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