13 September 1944(1944-09-13) (aged 33) Dachau concentration camp, Bavaria Nazi Germany
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Special Operations Executive
Years of service
1940-1944
Rank
Ensign (Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF)
Unit
Musician (SOE)
Battles/wars
Second World War
Awards
Croix de Guerre Mentioned in Dispatches
Yolande Elsa Maria Beekman (7 January 1911 – 13 September 1944) was a British spy in World War II who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and the Special Operations Executive.[1][2][3] She was a member of SOE's Musician circuit in occupied France during World War II where she operated as a wireless operator until arrested by the Gestapo.[4] She was subsequently executed at the Dachau concentration camp.[4]
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Yolande Elsa Maria Beekman (7 January 1911 – 13 September 1944) was a British spy in World War II who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)...
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agents Noor Inayat Khan, Madeleine Damerment, Eliane Plewman, and YolandeBeekman. Starting on April 11, 1933, Ruppert, married and the father of a child...
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Gestapo in Montélimar, 26, Rhône-Alpes. 18 September Harry Peulevé, YolandeBeekman and Harry Despaigne arrived by Lysander near Angers. 13 October Noor...
night of 11 September 1944, the Gestapo collected Éliane Plewman, YolandeBeekman and Madeleine Damerment from the prison and drove them to Karlsruhe...
Leigh; Henri Frager; Maurice Pertschuk, and Marcus Bloom. Survived. YolandeBeekman, SOE F Section agent, executed in Dachau concentration camp. Blanche...
executed at Natzweiler-Struthof by lethal injection on 6 July 1944; YolandeBeekman, Madeleine Damerment, Noor Inayat Khan and Eliane Plewman executed...
transferred to the Dachau concentration camp along with her fellow agents YolandeBeekman, Madeleine Damerment and Eliane Plewman. At dawn on the following morning...
Fresnes to the Avenue Foch along with four other women whose names were YolandeBeekman, Madeleine Damerment, Eliane Plewman and Odette Sansom, all of whom...
in Dachau in 1943 Petr Zenkl, Czech national socialist politician YolandeBeekman, Special Operations Executive agent, murdered 13 September 1944 Georges...
abruptly transferred to Dachau concentration camp with fellow agents YolandeBeekman, Noor Inayat Khan and Eliane Plewman, and at dawn on the following...
camp on 13 September 1944 with fellow SOE agents Noor Inayat Khan, YolandeBeekman and Eliane Plewman. Antelme is commemorated on the roll of honour of...
November 5 – Roy Rogers, American singer, actor (d. 1998) November 7 YolandeBeekman, French-born World War II heroine (d. 1944) Ángeles Santos Torroella...
assassination of Alexander II Jack Agazarian (1945) James J. Andrews (1862) YolandeBeekman (1944) Robert Benoist (1944) Denise Bloch (1945) Guy Biéler (1944)...
where she remained until she was five. She did her SOE training with YolandeBeekman and Noor Inayat Khan. She was the only one of the three to survive...
September 12 – Robert Fiske, American actor (b. 1889) September 13 YolandeBeekman, French WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1911) Madeleine Damerment, French...
Wake Poland Krystyna Skarbek-Granville Elżbieta Zawacka Switzerland YolandeBeekman (executed) US Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester Virginia Hall USSR Anna...
Fresnes to the Gestapo's Paris headquarters at 84 Avenue Foch along with YolandeBeekman, Madeleine Damerment, Eliane Plewman and Odette Sansom, all of whom...
and original member of rock band Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois Died: YolandeBeekman, 32, Madeleine Damerment, 26, and Noor Inayat Khan, 30, SOE agents...
name "Bastien" Gustave Biéler (1904-1944), organiser, code name "Guy" YolandeBeekman, courier, code name "Yvonne" François Vallée (1912-1944), organiser...
headquarters in the Avenue Foch along with four other women whose names were YolandeBeekman, Madeleine Damerment, Eliane Plewman and Odette Sansom, all of whom...
Khan Francine Agazarian Jack Agazarian France Antelme Vera Atkins YolandeBeekman Nicolas Bodington Andrée Borrel Maurice Buckmaster Yvonne Cormeau Madeleine...
motor racing driver and war hero (executed) (born 1895) 11 September – YolandeBeekman, World War II heroine (executed) (born 1911) 13 September – Madeleine...
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