Lilian Rolfe
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Lilian Vera Rolfe, MBE (26 April 1914 – 5 February 1945), code name Nadine, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organisation in France during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents in France allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.
Lilian Rolfe | |
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Nickname(s) | Nadine |
Born | (1914-04-26)26 April 1914 Paris, France |
Died | 5 February 1945(1945-02-05) (aged 30) Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Women's Auxiliary Air Force Special Operations Executive First Aid Nursing Yeomanry |
Years of service | 1943–1945 |
Rank | Ensign |
Unit | Historian |
Battles/wars | Second World War |
Awards | Member of the Order of the British Empire Mentioned in dispatches Croix de Guerre (France) |
Rolfe was a wireless operator for the Historian Network based in Orleans. After four months of work in France, she was captured by the Germans on 31 July 1944. She was executed in Ravensbrück concentration camp in late January 1945.