Orchard Court

Orchard Court

Orchard Court (known in French as Le Verger) was an apartment off Portman Square in London. It was used during the Second World War as the London base of F section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

Sources

  • Michael Richard Daniell Foot, SOE in France. An account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940-1944, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966, 1968 ; Whitehall History Publishing, in association with Frank Cass, 2004. Ce livre présente la version officielle britannique de l’histoire du SOE en France. Une référence essentielle sur le SOE.
  • Peter Churchill, Missions secrètes en France, 1941-1943, Presses de la Cité, 1967.
  • Marcel Ruby, La Guerre secrète. Les réseaux Buckmaster, Éditions France-Empire, 1985.

Coordinates: 51°30′58″N 0°09′17″W / 51.5160°N 0.1546°W / 51.5160; -0.1546


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