ATKINS, Vera May

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Squadron Officer Vera May ATKINS

WAAF, SOE

Joined SOE F Section with symbol ‘F/Int’, June 1941; duties included a broad range of tasks including conducting and briefing agents and coordinating welfare of their families; was in Baker Street, June 1944, as rear link to the integrated F and Free French Sections; set up office of SPU 24 in Hotel Cecil, Paris, autumn 1944: returned to UK to wind up French Section until closure of SOE in December 1945; attached to Legal Section of British War Crimes Commission in Germany to trace the fate of agents who had not returned from concentration camps, January 1946.

Vera Atkins

Those that served