Elizabeth "Minnie" Devereux-Rochester, also known as Elizabeth Reynolds, (20 December 1917 – between 1981 and 1983) was a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry who served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during World War II and worked as a courier with the codename Typist (in French: "Dactylo") for the Marksman network (or circuit).
The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by Nazi Germany or other Axis powers.
In the 1930s, she lived in Paris with her mother; when the Germans invaded France in 1941, she worked as a driver for the French Red Cross.
Following training, she landed in a Hudson aircraft on 18 October 1943 in France with Richard Heslop (organiser of the Marksman circuit, codename "Xavier"), a radio operator, Owen Denis Johnson, and an RF agent of Charles de Gaulle, Jean Rosenthal.
"She did not walk, she strode...you automatically expected to see a couple of Labradors at her heels...She stuck out like a sore thumb."
"[1] In Spring 1944, Heslop reluctantly requested that Rochester be recalled by SOE to England, as she "looked so like an Englishwoman" that he and the French leaders were apprehensive that she would be captured by the Germans.