Madeleine Damerment
Madeleine Damerment (1917 - 1944) is a resistant Frenchwoman during the Second world war. She works initially in the network of escape STALEMATE, then like mail of network BRICKLAYER of the Executive section F of the Special Operations. Its code names are Solange, Dancer, then Martine.
Biography
- Birth in Lille, on November 11th, 1917.
- It works in France as assistant of Michael Trotobas for the line of escape STALEMATE installation by the Belgian army from Doctor Albert Guérisse, as it is the case of Andrée Borrel and Nancy Wake. When the die of escape is betrayed, Madeleine turns over in England in 1942.
- Once in England, Damerment engages in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), section F. Trained to become the mail of network BRICKLAYER, it is parachuted in France, to approximately 30 km in the east of Chartres, in the night from February 28th to 29th 1944, with France Antelme and the operator radio operator Lionel Lee. Work was discovered and their return was accommodated by the Gestapo which, after a short interrogation, stops them and Avenue Foch takes them along to Paris.
- It is locked up in the civil prison of Karlsruhe, then transferred to Dachau the September 10th 1944 with Eliane Plewman, Yolande Beekman and Noor Inayat Khan. Little time after their arrival, all four is carried out a ball in the nape of the neck. Madeleine is then 26 years old.
- It works in France as assistant of Michael Trotobas for the line of escape STALEMATE installation by the Belgian army from Doctor Albert Guérisse, as it is the case of Andrée Borrel and Nancy Wake. When the die of escape is betrayed, Madeleine turns over in England in 1942.
Recognition
- It is decorated on a purely posthumous basis with the Légion with honor, the Military Cross and the Medal of voluntary combatant of Resistance.
- It is recorded with the Memorial of Brookwood (Surrey, Great Britain).
- As one of the 104 agents of the SOE section F died for France, it is honoured with the Memorial with Valençay (Indre, France).
- It is recorded with the Memorial of Brookwood (Surrey, Great Britain).