Before 2 September 2010 (aged 89) Torquay, England
Allegiance
United Kingdom, France
Service/branch
Special Operations Executive
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
Years of service
1943–45
Unit
Wizard
Relations
Jacqueline Nearne (sister), Francis and Frederick Nearne (brothers)
Eileen Mary "Didi" Nearne MBE, Croix de Guerre (15 March 1921[1][2] – 2 September 2010 (date body found)) was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during World War II.[3] The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.
Nearne served as a radio operator under the codename "Rose."[4] (French Resistance operative Andrée Peel was also known as Agent Rose.) She was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp, but survived the war.
^Obituary in The Times 15 September 2010
^"Eileen Nearne's war heroism revealed in National Archives". The Guardian. 29 October 2010.
^"People's War", BBC. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
^John Fisher Burns (21 September 2010). "Eileen Nearne, wartime spy, dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 September 2010. After she died earlier this month, a frail 89-year-old alone in a flat in the British seaside town of Torquay, Eileen Nearne, her body undiscovered for several days, was listed by local officials as a candidate for what is known in Britain as a council burial, or what in the past was called a pauper's grave.
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