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Lilian Vera Rolfe, MBE (26 April 1914 – 5 February 1945), code name Nadine, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organisation in France during World War II.
May 19, 2023 · Lilian Rolfe was a wireless operator who parachuted into occupied France in 1944 to support the Resistance and report German movements. She was captured and executed by the Gestapo in 1945 and will be honoured in Paris on May 19.
Jun 14, 2021 · Lilian Rolfe was a wireless operator for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in occupied France during WW2. She was captured by the Gestapo, tortured and executed in 1944, but a plaque commemorating her courage was unveiled in Paris in 2023.
Dec 6, 2011 · Two of the spies, wireless operators Denise Bloch and Lilian Rolfe, were so malnourished they had to be carried by stretcher. Clothed in rags, their faces black with dirt and their hair matted,...
Feb 5, 2010 · Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe, and Violette Szabo were all fluent young Francophones who volunteered their services for Britain’s dangerous spying-and-sabotage operations in support of the French Resistance.
Aug 23, 2006 · Both Denise Bloch and Lilian Rolfe were sent to Ravensbrück with Szabo in August 1944. In January 1945, all three were shot one by one. Bloch and Rolfe were carried to the place of execution on stretchers and their clothing and bodies burned.
Lilian Rolfe was a French-born Allied secret agent during World War II. She worked for the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro before joining the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in 1943. She was later recruited by the Special Operations Executive and trained as a wireless operator.
