- SURNAME
Cormeau
- FORENAME
Beatrice Yvonne (nee Biesterfeld)
- UNIT
F Section SOE
- RANK
Flight Officer
- NUMBER
9903
- AWARD
Member of the British Empire,Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre (Fr)
- PLACE
France 1943-44
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Women's Auxiliary Air Force
born 18.12.1909 Shanghai,China
Belgian father,Scottish mother
educated Belgium and Scotland
married Charles Edouard Emile Cormeau 1937
husband WIA with Rifle Brigade November 1940 and shortly after killed in London
bombing
joined WAAF November 1941 as 2027172 ACW
RAF Innsworth
RAF Swinderby
joined SOE 15.2.1943
SOE 1943-45
codename Annette
Wheelwright Circuit (w/t op)
also awarded Medaille de la Resistance (France)
died 25.12.1997
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