SOE Szabo, Violette Reine Elizabeth

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Szabo ​

• FORENAME

Violette Reine Elizabeth ​

• UNIT

F Section SOE ​

• RANK

Ensign ​

• NUMBER

F/29 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

25th January 1945 ​

• AGE

23 ​

• GRAVESITE

Brookwood Memorial,Surrey Panel 26 Column 3 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Women's Transport Service (F.A.N.Y.)​

born 26.6.1921 72 rue de Villiers,Levallois-Perret,Hauts-de-Seine,France (0600 hours)​

"born Brixton,London" (G.C.Register) - error - grew up there​

daughter of Charles George and Reine Blanche (nee Leroy) Bushell,18 Burnley Road, Stockwell.South London,SW9 (postwar Long Jetty,N.S.W.,Australia)​

wife of late Etienne Michel Rene Szabo,36 Pembridge Villas,Notting Hill,London W11 (Tel.Bayswater 6188 ) (60145 Sgt-Mjr 1 Bn 13th Demi Brigade Legion Etrangere - killed in Egypt 24.10.1942 age 32)(married 21.8.1940 Aldershot Registry Office)​

mother of Tania Desiree Szabo (born 8.6.1942 St Mary's Hospital,Paddington,London)​

educated Stockwell Road School,South London​

sales assisiant at perfume counter,Bon Marche department store,Brixton Road,London in civilian life​

joined Land Army,Fareham,Hampshire 1940​

Private ATS 11.9.1941​

7 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Training Regiment,RA​

481 HAA Battery,137 HAA Regiment,RA​

joined SOE 10.7.43 as Section Leader,WTS + Ensign​

awards G.C.,Croix de Guerre (France)​

codename Louise​

Salesman Circuit (courier)​

alias Leroy,Corinne Reine​

alias Taylor,Vicky​

arrested 10.6.1944​

executed Ravensbruck,Germany (25th January - 5th February 1945)​

F Section Memorial,Valencay,France​

Memorial Plaque,Lambeth Town Hall​

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