Cecile Lefort | |
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 Cecile Lefort | |
| Nickname(s) | Alice, Teacher, Cecile Marguerite Legrand |
| Born | 30 April 1899 London, England |
| Died | February 1945 (aged 45) Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | Women's Auxiliary Air Force (1941–42) Special Operations Executive (1942–45) |
| Years of service | 1941–1945 |
| Unit | Jockey |
| Battles / wars | Second World War |
| Awards | Mentioned in Despatches Croix de Guerre (France) |
Cecile Margot Lefort (née Gordon, 30 April 1899 – February 1945)[1][2] served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.
Lefort arrived in France in June 1943 and was a courier, code named "Alice", for SOE's Jockey network (or circuit). She was arrested by the Gestapo in September 1943 and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was later executed.
- ^ Vigurs 2021, p. xviii.
- ^ Jones, Phillip (2010). Quickly To Her Fate. Lulu.com. ISBN 9780956554932.