13 Facts About Marcel Clech

Marcel Clech was a French agent in the French section of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.

Marcel Clech was sent to France on three missions and worked as a wireless operator in three different networks before his arrest, and was executed at Mauthausen Concentration Camp.

Marcel Clech participated in three missions: the first was aborted after coming under fire; the second involved assisting in the landing of SOE agents in France, after which he worked with the Monkepuzzle network; and the third mission saw him work as a radio operator for the Inventor network.

The network was betrayed, and Marcel Clech was arrested and later executed at the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1944.

Marcel Clech was posthumously awarded the Medaille de la Resistance, and is commemorated at The Valencay SOE Memorial in France and Brookwood Memorial in Surrey.

Marcel Remy Clech was born in Brittany on 11 October 1905.

Marcel Clech lived in London working as a taxi driver.

Marcel Clech joined the Special Operations Executive, section F, as a wireless operator.

Marcel Clech was commissioned as Lieutenant in the British Army on the general list.

Marcel Clech was sent to France to became the radio operator of the 'Autogiro' network of Pierre de Vomecourt.

Marcel Clech's mission was then modified and he was sent to Tours, where he was assigned to the Monkepuzzle network of Raymond Flower.

Marcel Clech became the radio operator of Inventor network of Sidney Jones, with Vera Leigh as courier.

Marcel Clech was deported to Mauthausen concentration camp where he was executed on 24 March 1944.