Eugénie Djendi

The course, at St Albans and Manchester, covered such things as parachuting, management of explosives and unarmed combat as well as basic radio transmission.

She flew from Tempsford airfield in a Halifax on 9 April 1944 and parachuted with two male colleagues into the area of Sully-sur-Loire,[1] where she established radio contact with London and Algeria.

They were arrested by the police the following day in possession of their radio equipment and she was later sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she made contact with fellow operatives Marie-Louise Cloarec, Pierrette Louin and Suzanne Mertzizen who arrived 8 August 1944.

[2] After their demands to be transferred to a Prisoner of War camp were denied, the four women were executed[2] by firing squad on 18 January 1945 and their bodies burnt and buried in the nearby forest.

Djendi was declared "Mort pour la France" and posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre avec Palme and the Medal of the Resistance.