Plaque | War dead | WW2

Violette Szabo home

Inscription

Violette Szabo, GC, 1921 - 1945, secret agent, lived here.
She gave her life for the French Resistance.
Greater London Council

Site: Violette Szabo home (1 memorial)

SW9, Burnley Road, 18

Szabo lived here 1932-42.

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Violette Szabo home

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French Resistance / The Maquis

French resistance fighters in WW2. 470 SOE agents were sent on sabotage missi...

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Violette Szabo, GC, CdeG

British secret agent in WW2. Born in Paris as Violette Bushell of a French mo...

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Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...

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