This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Gilbert Norman" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Gilbert Maurice Norman
Born
(1915-04-07)7 April 1915 Saint-Cloud, Paris, France
Died
6 September 1944(1944-09-06) (aged 29) KZ Mauthausen, Austria
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army SOE
Years of service
1940–1944
Rank
Major
Service number
156759
Unit
Physician/Prosper circuit
Battles/wars
World War II
Awards
Mention in Despatches[1] Médaille de la Résistance
Gilbert Maurice Norman (7 April 1915 – 6 September 1944[citation needed]) was a British Army officer who served in the Special Operations Executive in France during World War II.
Norman was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, to an English father and a French mother and was educated in France and England. He joined the army, receiving a commission in the Durham Light Infantry in November 1940[2] and was subsequently recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE). In November 1942, he was sent into France to join the newly formed Prosper network, but on 24 June 1943 was arrested by the Gestapo, together with cell leader Francis Suttill and courier Andrée Borrel.
Norman was taken to the Paris headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst at 84 Avenue Foch. The Germans used Norman's captured wireless set to transmit their own false messages to SOE Headquarters in Baker Street. Norman attempted to warn London that he was in captivity by not giving the Germans the second part of his security check, which they did not know about. Omitting the security check from a message was specifically designed to act as a duress code which would warn London that the sender was being coerced. However, Norman was frustrated when London sent a curt reply telling him to correct the omission.
The Germans were thus able to set a trap which resulted in the capture of Jack Agazarian who had been sent with Nicholas Bodington to investigate the fate of the Prosper network. Norman was shipped to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was executed on 6 September 1944.
Major Gilbert Norman is honoured on the Brookwood Memorial in Surrey, England, and is also on the "Roll of Honour" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre departément of France.
^"No. 37450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 January 1946. p. 750.
^"No. 34995". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 November 1940. p. 6626.
Gilbert Maurice Norman (7 April 1915 – 6 September 1944[citation needed]) was a British Army officer who served in the Special Operations Executive in...
GilbertNorman Plass (March 22, 1920 – March 1, 2004) was a Canadian physicist who in the 1950s made predictions about the increase in global atmospheric...
NormanGilbert Pritchard (23 June 1875 – 30 October 1929), also known by his stage name Norman Trevor, was a British-Indian athlete and actor who became...
Richard fitz Gilbert (before 1035–c. 1090), 1st feudal baron of Clare in Suffolk, was a Norman lord who participated in the Norman conquest of England...
Déricourt (code named "Gilbert") or Suttill's wireless operator, GilbertNorman. 7 July A wireless message ostensibly from GilbertNorman in Paris confirmed...
Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his exaggerated shrill voice...
Gilbert Alexander Pontes Burns (born 20 July 1986) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and submission grappler. As of 12 March 2024, he is...
GilbertNorman Potter (10 July 1878 – 27 April 1921) was a District Inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary. He was born in Dromahair, County Leitrim...
Continues". imdb. Retrieved September 8, 2013. Matthew, Gilbert (September 19, 2022). "This week's TV: Norman Lear at 100, a comedy about reboots, and a reboot...
Fitz-Gibbon and Fitzgibbons are Irish surnames of Hiberno-Norman origin. The surname originates with Gilbert (Gibbon) FitzJohn, who was an illegitimate son of...
Gilbert Fitz Richard (c. 1066–c. 1117), 2nd feudal baron of Clare in Suffolk, and styled "de Tonbridge", was a powerful Anglo-Norman baron who was granted...
Merton Priory was an English Augustinian priory founded in 1114 by GilbertNorman, Sheriff of Surrey under King Henry I (1100–1135). It was situated within...
introduced Starr to GilbertNorman, another SOE agent who was also a prisoner, and gave them a few minutes alone to chat. According to Starr, Norman told him that...
abbot (d. 1058) Duthac, patron saint of Tain (Scotland) (d. 1065) Gilbert, Norman nobleman (approximate date) Guigues I, French nobleman (approximate...
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish...
Elizabeth Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over...
Gilbert Crispin (c. 1055 – 1117) was a Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk, appointed by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1085 to be the abbot, proctor and servant...
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; French: Normands; Latin: Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling...
showed up where the handover was to take place. Francis Suttill and GilbertNorman flee. It is a definite failure. When the Prosper network collapsed in...
the Lombard County of Ariano [it] was usurped by a group of Norman knights headed by Gilbert and hired by Melus. The County, which replaced the pre-existing...
Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare (died 15 April 1136) 3rd feudal baron of Clare in Suffolk, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. A marcher lord in Wales, he was...
Dharma Pala, Indian ruler of the Pala dynasty (d. 1060) Richard fitz Gilbert, Norman nobleman (d. c.1090) (approximate date) Henry of Burgundy, French nobleman...
Global Information
United Kingdom
British Army