French Resistance; Special Operations Executive agent
Relatives
Lisé de Baissac Mary Katherine Herbert
Claude Marie Marc Boucherville de Baissac, DSO and bar, CdeG, known as Claude de Baissac or by his codename David (born 28 February 1907, Curepipe, Mauritius; died 22 December 1974) was a Mauritian of French descent who was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in France during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.
De Baissac was the leader of an important SOE network called Scientist. He worked in the city of Bordeaux and southwestern France from July 1942 to August 1943, organizing and supplying the French Resistance with arms and gathering intelligence on blockade-running ships entering and leaving Bordeaux harbor. He flew back to England when his network was betrayed, but returned to action in Normandy from February to August 1944, carrying out sabotage missions against the Germans after the D-Day invasion of France by the allies. His elder sister Lise was also an SOE agent and worked with him.
Claude Marie Marc Boucherville deBaissac, DSO and bar, CdeG, known as ClaudedeBaissac or by his codename David (born 28 February 1907, Curepipe, Mauritius;...
Lise Marie Jeanette deBaissac MBE CdeG (11 May 1905 – 29 March 2004), code names Odile and Marguerite, was a Mauritian agent in the United Kingdom's clandestine...
in France during the war. The father was her organiser (leader), ClaudedeBaissac. The couple later married but never lived together. Herbert was born...
Vaco grew up in Curepipe. His father Yves Baissac was the town architect and his brother Jean ClaudeBaissac was another well known Mauritian artist. He...
17/18 August Nicolas Bodington, ClaudedeBaissac, and Lise deBaissac returned to England via Lysander. ClaudedeBaissac's Scientist network, based in Bordeaux...
Philippe de Gunzbourg, courier Violette Szabo, courier, code name "Louise" Yvonne Baseden, courier, code name "Odette" ClaudedeBaissac, organiser Lise de Baissac...
due to a simultaneous mission to sink the ships in Bordeaux, led by ClaudedeBaissac of the Special Operations Executive, which Hasler's team and Combined...
an SOE agent in the WRNS. London: Robert Hale. ISBN 0753193361. "ClaudedeBaissac - Special Operations Executive (SOE) Agents in France". nigelperrin...
sent to France in 1944. The RF section was under the direction of Charles de Gaulle's Free French Government in exile with SOE lending logistical support...
wireless operator with the organiser ClaudedeBaissac and his sister Lise, his courier and assistant. The deBaissacs, among SOE's best agents, were "dedicated...
Georges Loustaunau-Lacau, Resistant. Germaine Tillion, Resistant. ClaudedeBaissac, agent of the Special Operations Executive. Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan...
night of 16–17 August 1943 by Westland Lysander along with Lise and ClaudedeBaissac. He did not believe that Déricourt was betraying British agents as...
landed in France by Lysander aircraft on 17 March 1943, along with ClaudedeBaissac and France Antelme. She was joining her husband Jack Agazarian and...
79–81. Vigurs 2021, pp. 118–119. Seymour-Jones 2013, p. 206. Lise and ClaudedeBaissac, brother and sister, were one of several exceptions to this rule....
codename as Aristide, was as radio operator to the SCIENTIST network of ClaudedeBaissac (David). He parachuted into France with Gilbert Norman on the night...
woodcarver and sculptor Claude Lise (born 1941), French politician from Martinique Lise is a variant of the given name Lisa Lise deBaissac (1905–2004), Mauritian...
aristocratic aplomb. The two soon parted company by mutual consent. DeBaissac joined her brother Claude and rendered valuable service in Normandy before and after...
director, drew inspiration from an obituary in The Times newspaper of Lise deBaissac (Lise Villameur), from Mauritius (then a British colony), one of the heroines...
Mauritian painters include Henri Le Sidaner, Malcolm de Chazal, Raouf Oderuth and Vaco Baissac while Gabrielle Wiehe is a prominent illustrator and graphic...
established in the United States. September 24 – WWII: Andrée Borrel and Lise deBaissac become the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France...
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