The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish

by Noreen Riols

  Carter

  Charles Henri Lucien – organizer

  Chestnut

  †Roland Dowlen – wireless operator

  †William Grover-Williams – organizer

  Cinema

  †Emile Henri Garry – organizer

  †Noor Inayat-Khan – wireless operator

  Clergyman

  †Robert Benoist – organizer

  †Denise Bloch – wireless operator, 1943–1945

  Louis Blondet – instructor

  Delegate

  †J. T. J. M. Detal – organizer

  †P. F. Duclos

  Detective

  †Denise Bloch – wireless operator, 1943–1945

  Blanche Charlet – courier

  Henri Sevenet (aka Henry Thomas) – organizer

  Brian Stonehouse – wireless operator

  Digger

  Jacques Poirier – organizer

  Ditcher

  Guy D’Artois – organizer

  †Jean Renaud

  Donkeyman

  Rolf Baumann – teacher

  †Jean Dubois – wireless operator

  Francis Cammaerts

  †Henri Frager – organizer

  Peggy Knight – courier

  †A. R. Lansdell

  Vera Leigh – liaison officer

  †E. Levene

  Farmer

  Arthur Staggs – wireless operator

  †Michael Trotobas – organizer

  Farrier

  Juliane Aisner – courier

  Marcel Remy Clement – assistant

  Henri Déricourt – organizer

  Andre Watt – wireless operator

  Fireman

  Edmund Mayer – organizer

  Percy Mayer – organizer

  Footman

  George Hiller – organizer

  Freelance

  John D. Allsop – instructor

  Andre Michael Bloch – instructor

  Rene Dussaq – assistant

  John Farmer – organizer

  Denis Rake – wireless operator

  Reeve Schley

  Nancy Wake – courier

  Gamekeeper

  †Jack Agazarian – wireless operator

  Gondolier

  †P. F. M. Sarrette – organizer

  Headmaster

  †F. E. Bee

  Charles Sydney ‘Soapy’ Hudson – organizer

  Heckler

  Paul Goillot – organizer

  Henry Riley – organizer

  Historian

  Nicholas Allington – assistant

  †Jean Renaud-Dandicolle (or John Danby)

  †Liliane Rolfe – wireless operator

  André Studler – assistant

  †George Alfred ‘Teddy’ Wilkinson – organizer

  Inventor

  †Marcel Clech – wireless operator

  †Sidney Jones – organizer and arms instructor

  †Vera Leigh – courier

  Jockey

  Francis Cammaerts – organizer

  Leslie Fernandez

  Xan Fielding

  Auguste Floiras – wireless operator

  Christine Granville – courier

  †Cecily Lefort – courier

  Pierre Martinot – instructor

  Pierre Reynaud – sabotage instructor

  Antoine Sereni – wireless operator

  Juggler

  †Jean Worms (or Jean de Verieux) – organizer

  Labourer

  †E. A. L. Allard

  †P. A. H. Geelen

  †Maurice Larcher – wireless operator

  Marcel Leccia (or Georges Louis) – organizer

  Lackey

  A. Beauregard

  Liontamer

  †D. H. Finlayson

  †M. A. Lepage – organizer

  †E. Lesout

  Marksman

  Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester – courier

  Richard Harry Heslop – organizer

  Owen Johnson – wireless operator

  Gordon Nornable – wireless operator

  Geoffrey Parker – medic

  Jean Pierre Rosenthal – organizer

  Marcel Veilleux – wireless operator

  Minister

  †Denis Barrett – wireless operator

  †P. L. Mulsant – organizer

  Monkeypuzzle or Monk

  Marcel Clech – wireless operator

  †Eliane Plewman – courier

  †Jack Sinclair

  † Charles Skepper – organizer

  † Arthur Steele – wireless operator

  Musician

  †Yolande Beekman – wireless operator

  †Gustave (Guy) Bieler – organizer

  †G. B. McBain

  †Paul Tessier – assistant

  Orator

  †J. P. H. Ledoux – organizer

  Parson

  †G. Clement

  †H. H. Gaillot

  Pedlar

  Nicholas Bodington – organizer

  Phono

  †F. A. Deniset

  Pimento

  Anthony Brooks – organizer

  Permit

  Gerard Dedieu – organizer

  Physician

  Francine Agazarian – courier

  Jack Agazarian – wireless operator

  †J. F. Amps

  †Andrée Borrel – courier

  Jacques Bureau – radio technician

  Pierre Culioli – organizer

  George Darling – group leader

  †Gilbert Norman – wireless operator

  †Yvonne Rudellat – courier

  †Francis Suttill – organizer

  Germaine Tambour

  Madeleine Tambour

  Playwright

  †E. G. J. Duboudin – organizer

  Priest

  † A. Defendini – organizer

  †R. Sabourin

  Privet

  †E. M. Wilkinson – organizer

  Prunus

  †M. R. Bloom

  †M. Pertschuk – organizer

  Publican

  †M. G. F. Fox – organizer

  Redwood

  †B. D. Rafferty

  Reporter

  †C. M. Jumeau – organizer

  Rover

  †J. A. Mayer

  †C. Rechenmann – organizer

  Salesman

  Edgar Fraser – Dakota expert

  Jean Claude Guiet – wireless operator

  Philippe Liewer (aka Charles Staunton) – organizer

  Bob Maloubier – weapons instructor

  †Claude Malraux

  †Isidore Newman – wireless operator

  †Violette Szabo – courier

  Satirist

  †Marcel Defence – wireless operator

  †A. de Montalembert

  †O. A. G. Simon – organizer

  Scholar

  Raymond Aubin – organizer

  Yvonne Baseden – wireless operator

  Rene Bichelot – assistant

  Louis Antoine Nonni

  †Marie Joseph de Saint-Geniès – organizer

  Gonzague de Saint-Geniès – organizer

  Scientist

  Claude de Baissac – organizer

  Lise de Baissac – courier

  André Grandclément – organizer double agent

  †Victor Hayes – instructor

  Mary Katherine Herbert – courier

  Roger Landes – wireless operator

  †Maurice Larcher – wireless operator

  Phyliss Latour – wireless operator

  †Paul Baptiste Pardi – landing grounds

  Harry Peulevé

  †Jean Renaud-Dandicolle (or John Danby)

  Scullion II

  †P. J. Amphlett

  †G. W. H. Demand

  †H. H. Graham

  †D. W. Sibrée

  †V. A. Soskice

  Shipwright


  Amédée (Dédé) Mainguard – organizer

  †A. Schwatschko

  Spindle

  Peter Churchill – organizer

  André Girard

  Victor Hazan

  Adolphe Rabinovitch – wireless operator

  Odette Sansom – courier

  Spiritualist

  Henri Diacono – wireless operator

  René Dumont-Guillemet – organizer

  †Paul Tessier – assistant

  Spruce or Plane

  Robert Boiteaux – organizer

  Henri Paul Le Chêne – organizer

  Stationer

  Jacques Dufour

  Amédée (Dédé) Mainguard – organizer

  †René Mathieu – wireless operator

  Pierre Mattei – landing grounds

  Jacqueline Nearne – courier

  †A. Schwatschko

  Alexander Shaw – landing grounds

  Maurice Southgate – organizer

  Pearl Witherington – courier; organizer following Southgate’s arrest of Wrestler

  Stockbroker

  †Eric Cauchi – instructor

  Joseph Maetz Harry Ree – organizer

  †Diana Rowden – courier

  †Jean Alexander Simon

  †Paul Ullman – wireless operator

  Surveyor

  †R. E. J. Alexandre – organizer

  †R. B. Byerly

  Tinker

  Benny Cowburn – organizer

  †E. M. Wilkinson

  Tobacconist

  †J. T. Hamilton – sole member

  Ventriloquist

  †Muriel Byck – wireless operator

  Emile Counasse

  Maurice Lostrie – saboteur

  †Stanislaw Makowski – instructor

  Pierre de Vomécourt – organizer

  Verger

  †Maurice Larcher – wireless operator

  †Jean Renaud-Dandicolle (or John Danby) – organizer

  Wheelwright

  Jean-Claude Arnault – assistant

  Yvonne Cormeau – wireless operator

  Philippe de Gunzbourg – courier

  George Reginald Starr – organizer

  Anne-Marie Walters – courier

  Wizard

  Eileen (Didi) Nearne – wireless operator

  Jean Savy – organizer

  Wrestler

  Pearl Witherington – organizer

  † – killed or executed while on a mission

  Endnote

  1. In June 1944 a group of French résistants disguised as Milice marched into the Propaganda Ministry in the rue Solferino in Paris – now the HQ of the French Socialist Party – and shot Philippe Henriot dead as he reached the bottom of the stairs. Rumour has it that this murder was orchestrated by SOE and carried out by an SOE agent. But the rumour has never been confirmed.

  Noreen Riols was born in Malta of English parents, and lives with her French husband in a seventeenth-century house in a village near Versailles. After the war, she joined the BBC, where she met her husband, a journalist with the World Service. She is the author of ten books, published in Britain, Germany, Holland, Norway and the US. She has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and for several years contributed features from Paris to Woman’s Hour. She is an experienced public speaker with an impressive list of credits to her name and has also broadcast on radio and television programmes across the world.

  Also by Noreen Riols

  Eye of the Storm

  My Unknown Child

  Only the Best

  When Suffering Comes

  Laura

  Katharine

  To Live Again

  Before the Dawn

  Where Love Endures

  First published 2013 by Macmillan

  This electronic edition published 2014 by Pan Books

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  ISBN 978-0-230-77170-3

  Copyright © Noreen Riols 2013

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