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There is an equally impressive memorial to the SOE down in Valencay in the Indre Department.Unveiled in May 1991 by the Queen Mother it records the 13 woman and 104 men who lost their lives in SOE Operations.(Have a photograph of the memorial, pre digital era somewhere.)
Violett Szabo nee Bushell was a daughter of a Great War British soldier and his wife who was French.
SOE was wound up quickly after the war but its place in history belongs to the likes of M R D Foot who was commissioned, as regards operations in France, to write its history in the early 1960s as "SOE in France" and E H Cookridge who penned "Inside SOE" (covered France the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark.) Apparently there was some restrictions placed on these two historians.Foot was not allowed to look at the PFs of the SOE agents while Cookridge was given authorty to view them but his UK edition was an abridged version,unlike the version circulating in the US.
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