28 Facts About Madeleine Damerment

Madeleine Zoe Damerment was a French agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive organization during World War II.

Madeleine Damerment fled France in March 1942 to avoid arrest.

Madeleine Damerment was to be a courier for SOE's Bricklayer circuit but was captured by the Gestapo on 29 February 1944 upon arrival in France.

Madeleine Damerment was executed at the Dachau concentration camp on 13 September 1944 along with three other female SOE agents.

Madeleine Damerment was born in Tortefontaine, Pas-de-Calais Department, France on 11 November 1917.

Madeleine Damerment was the second daughter of Charles Damerment, an official in the French Postal and Telegraph Service.

Madeleine Damerment's father was appointed Postmaster in Lille of the city's postmaster.

Madeleine Damerment's father got her a job as a clerk in the Post Office.

Madeleine Damerment was living in Lille when the Germans defeated and occupied France in summer 1940.

Madeleine Damerment worked as a courier on the clandestine Pat O'Leary escape line set up by Albert Guerisse.

Madeleine Damerment helped downed British airmen and others to escape France to neutral Spain and hence to British Gibraltar or neutral Lisbon, Portugal from where they would be flown to Britain.

Madeleine Damerment became engaged to Roland Lepers, a young man who guided escaping Allied airmen and French soldiers from Lille to Marseille, where the Pat Line was headquartered.

Madeleine Damerment initially stayed in the home of Michael Cresswell, a British diplomat who was helping escapees from the Germans.

Madeleine Damerment was then driven to Lisbon in a British Embassy automobile and flown to Britain by the British on 27 June 1942.

Madeleine Damerment recuperated from an illness at a Catholic convent and became a French teacher.

Madeleine Damerment was recruited and volunteered to work with the SOE.

Madeleine Damerment was given the cover name Martine Dussautoy and commissioned as an ensign in the FANY.

Madeleine Damerment worked well and showed keenness in fieldcraft, although she found the theoretical side difficult.

Madeleine Damerment has a good sense of humour and a certain amount of charm and intelligence.

Madeleine Damerment is quite intelligent, practical, shrewd, quick and resourceful.

Madeleine Damerment's character is strong, but she is self-centred, rather irresponsible and sometimes impatient and turbulent.

Madeleine Damerment is temperamental, and personal relationships play a considerable part in her life.

Madeleine Damerment's personality is vivacious, and she can be pleasant when she wants to be, but she is inclined to be malicious and sullen when she does not get her own way.

Madeleine Damerment was assigned as courier with the Bricklayer network, and she and agents France Antelme, an experienced leader and organiser, and Lionel Lee parachuted from a RAF special duties 161 Squadron Halifax into a field near the city of Chartres on the night of 29 February 1944.

Madeleine Damerment was transported to SD headquarters at Avenue Foch in Paris where she was interrogated.

On 12 May 1944, Madeleine Damerment was sent with several other captured female SOE agents to Karlsruhe prison, a civilian prison for women in Germany, where they were held for four months.

Madeleine Damerment is recorded on the FANY memorial at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London and in column 3 of panel 26 of the Brookwood Memorial as one of 3,500 "to whom war denied a known and honoured grave".

Madeleine Damerment is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valencay SOE Memorial in the town of Valencay, in the Indre Departement of France.