French resistance fighters in WW2. 470 SOE agents were sent on sabotage missions to occupied France where they fought with networks of French resistance fighters who played an important part in the liberation of France in 1944. The 'Maquis' refers mainly to the rural guerrilla bands.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
French Resistance / The Maquis
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Violette Szabo home
Violette Szabo, GC, 1921 - 1945, secret agent, lived here. She gave her life ...
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T. C. Thornton
Employed at the Streatham bus garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
W. Quinn
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Reinhard Heydrich
Nazi official. Born Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich in Halle an der Saale. An architect of the Holocaust, he is regarded as one of the most extreme members of the Nazi regime, with even Hitler call...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia, Germany
Lieutenant Hamilton Jefferson
Hamilton Jefferson was born on 19 August 1897 in Groton, Massachusetts, USA, the fourth of the six children of George David Jefferson (1863-1937) and Rebecca Gorham Jefferson née Kettle (1864-1918)...
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American Bar Association
Stated mission: "To serve equally our members, our profession and the public by defending liberty and delivering justice as the national representative of the legal profession."
Abolition of slavery
The British abolition of slavery came in two parts: first the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act became law on 25 March 1807, which left slavery itself still permitted until the Slavery Abolition Act...
Event, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Africa, Australia, Bermuda, Caribbean Islands, Indian Sub-continent, Jamaica, Sri Lanka
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