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Mar 12, 1900 Port Louis, Port Louis District, Mauritius Died on 12 Sep 1944 (aged 44)
Member of Special Operations Executive
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About France Antelme
- Major Joseph Antoine France Antelme OBE (12 March 1900 – 1944), no.
- 239255, was one of 14 Franco-Mauritians who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a World War II British secret service that sent espionage agents, saboteurs and guerrilla fighters into enemy-occupied territory. After being involved in undercover operations in Vichy-held Madagascar ahead of the allied landings there in May 1942, Antelme joined the SOE F (France) section in England.
- He undertook two missions in occupied France.
- On this third mission, on the night of 28/29 February 1944, he , along with SOE operatives Lionel Lee and Madaleine Dermement, parachuted to a reception committee compromised by the Gestapo, and were captured.
- In accordance with Adolph Hitler's "Nacht und Nebel" directive regarding irregular combatants, he and 18 other captured SOE officers were executed at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Lower Silesia in July or August 1944.
