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These are the networks, also known as circuits, (or réseaux to their French participants) established in France by F Section of the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. See also SOE F Section timeline.

Contents

Acolyte

Acrobat

  • Harry Rée - worked with Acrobat before taking charge of Stockbroker
  • Diana Rowden - courier
  • Jean Simon - organiser following Starr's arrest
  • John Ashford Renshaw Starr - organiser
  • John Cuthbert Young - wireless operator

Archdeacon

A network which was meant to be established by Frank Pickersgill and John Kenneth Macalister, who were both captured in June 1943 immediately upon arrival in France. The network became an operation run by the Germans.

Joseph Placke, an assistant in the wireless section at 84 Avenue Foch, impersonated Pickersgill, and Macalister's captured radio and codes were used to transmit false messages to London, arranging parachute drops of supplies, which of course fell into German hands. The fake operation continued until May 1944 and resulted in the capture of a sabotage instructor and six other agents sent to join the network.

Asymptote

Author

Autogiro

A network which was organised in the Paris area by Pierre de Vomécourt, but which had been destroyed by the spring of 1942 after being betrayed by Mathilde Carre.

  • Georges Bégué - wireless operator
  • Christopher Burney - assigned to assist Burdeyron
  • Noel Fernand Rauol Burdeyron (real name, Norman F. Burley) - agent, singlehandedly derailed German supply train by pulling up a rail, Autogiro's only successful attack
  • Pierre de Vomécourt - organiser

Bricklayer

A small network specialized in the economical and financial matters in view of the allied landing on D-Day. The French members were mainly businessmen, lawyers, bankers and engineers.

Carter

  • Charles Henri Lucien - organiser

Chestnut

Clergyman

Detective

Digger

  • Peter Lake

Diplomat

  • Maurice Dupont

Ditcher

  • Guy D'Artois - organiser
  • Lt. Jean Renaud-Dandicolle, M.C. - Captured and killed on Saturday 10 June 1944

Donkeyman

A network organised following the collapse of Autogiro and built on the remnants of Carte. It had small groups over the whole of France.

Farmer

A network which was organised in the Lille area by Michael Trotobas.

  • Arthur Staggs - wireless operator
  • Michael Trotobas - organiser

Farrier

An operation to organise aircraft landings and the reception of agents sent by such means.

Fireman

  • Patricia (Paddy) Maureen O'Sullivan - wireless operator

Freelance

Headmaster

Heckler

Historian

Inventor

A sub-circuit of the Physician network.

  • Marcel Clech - wireless operator
  • Sidney Jones - organiser and arms instructor
  • Vera Eugenie Leigh - courier

Japonica

Jockey

A network in the south-east

Juggler

A sub-circuit of Physician, operating from Châlons-sur-Marne, east of Paris. It also had headquarters in the rue Cambon, near the Place de la Concorde

  • Gustave Cohen - wireless operator
  • Sonya Olschanezky - courier, administrator
  • Jacques Weil - second in command
  • Jean Worms - organiser

Also known as Robin.

Labourer

  • Odette Victoria Wilen

Marksman

Minister

Monk

Musician

A network in eastern Picardy.

Permit

  • Ginette Marie Helene Jullian

Phono

Physician

Also known as Prosper.

Plane

  • Henri Paul Le Chêne - organiser
  • Marie-Thérèse Le Chêne - courier
  • Pierre Louis Le Chêne - radio operator

Prosper

An unofficial name for Physician, named for its organizer's codename.

Robin

An unofficial name for Juggler.

Saint

Salesman

Jean-Claude Guiet, French-American, wireless operator aka Virgile Bob Maloubier

Scholar

  • Yvonne Jeanne Therese de Vibraye Baseden - wireless operator

Scientist

A network in the area of Bordeaux.

Silversmith

  • Madeleine Lavigne

Spindle

A network based in Montpellier.

Spiritualist

  • Henri Diacono - wireless operator
  • René Dumont-Guillemet - organiser

Stationer

A network with activities in the south and center of France, from Chateauroux to the foothills of the Pyrenees.

Stockbroker

Ventriloquist

Wheelwright

A network in the area of Toulouse.

Wizard

Jean Savy

Wrestler

A network with activities in the Valençay-Issoudun-Chateauroux triangle.

Map of networks as of June, 1943

The map below shows the major SOE F Section networks which existed in France in June 1943, based on the map published in Rita Kramer's book "Flames in the Field" (Michael Joseph Ltd, 1995).

SOE (F) Networks in France June 1943.jpg

Note: The map does not show the correct location of the original Autogiro network, which operated in the Paris area and did not exist after the spring of 1942. However the network was later revived by Francis Suttill, organiser of Prosper.


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