- SURNAME
Vallee
- FORENAME
Francois Joseph
- UNIT
F Section SOE
- RANK
Captain
- NUMBER
- DATE OF DEATH
1st March 1944
- AGE
32
- GRAVESITE
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit French Army
born 1.1.1912 Plounevez-Moedec,Cote-d-Armor,France (1.1.1910 SOE File)
educated Saint-Pol-de-Leon and Saint-Brieuc
served 6th Dragons 1931-32
sales manager in family paper mill in civilian life
7th Groupe Recognition Divisional (L/Sgt) 1939
POW 17.6.1940 - escaped
Mounier Network,Tunis
awarded Medaille Militaire,Ordre de Leopold,Croix de Guerre
joined SOE Tunisia February 1943
award M.C. (Tunisia 1943)
awards K.C.B.C.,CLdH,M.R.F.
codename Oscar and Franck
Parson Circuit (organiser)
alias de Lormes,Jacques Andre
arrested 4.2.1944
still alive June 1944
probably executed with Lt Gaillot at Gross Rosen,Germany (between August-September 1944) (Buchenwald in some accounts)
F Section Memorial,Valencay,France
DATE OF DEATH:
01-Mar-1944AWARD:
https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/vallee-francois.29839/
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