- Eliane Plewman
Infobox Military Person
name=Eliane Plewman
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born=1917
died=death date|1944|9|13
placeofbirth=
placeofdeath=Dachau
nickname=Agent Monk, Gaby
allegiance=United Kingdom ,France
branch=Special Operations Executive ,French Resistance
serviceyears=1943-1944
rank=Field agent and guerrilla commander
unit=
commands=SOE F Section networks#Monk
battles=
awards=
relations=
laterwork=Eliane Plewman (
1917 -September 13 1944 ) was a French SOE agent and member ofFrench resistance .Plewman was born Eliane Browne-Bartroli in
Marseilles . The daughter of an English father and Spanish mother, she was educated inEngland and inSpain . When she finished college she moved toLeicester to work for an import company.After the outbreak of the Second World War, Plewman worked for the British Embassies in
Madrid andLisbon . In 1942 she went to Britain to work for the Spanish section of the Ministry of Information. That same summer she married British army officer Tom Plewman. Later she joined theSpecial Operations Executive (SOE) and was given a codename "Gaby".On 13-14 August 1943 Plewman parachuted into France and joined a MONK resistance network of
Charles Skepper . She worked as acourier in the area ofMarseilles ,Roquebrune and St. Raphael.When the network was betrayed in March 1944, Plewman was also arrested. The
Gestapo interrogated her for three weeks and then transferred her toFresnes prison. On 13 May 1944 the Germans transferred her and three other SOE agents (Yolande Beekman ,Madeleine Damerment andNoor Inayat Khan ) to prison atKarlsruhe . On 10 September they were transferred to theDachau concentration camp , where she, Beekman and Damermant and Inayat Khan were forced to kneel in pairs and were executed by a single shot to the head on 13 September 1944.Eliane Plewman is remembered on the Brookwood Memorial in Surrey (Panel 26 Column 3) and the F Section Memorial, in Valencay, France.
External links
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SOEplewman.htm Spartacus Educational about Eliane Plewman]
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