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Yvonne Baseden
1922–2017
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- spy
Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE (20 January 1922 â 28 October 2017), later known as Yvonne Burney, was one of approximately forty female Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents who served in France.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Ravensbrück concentration campDates unknown
- JVA SaarbrückenDates unknown
Biography
Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE (20 January 1922 â 28 October 2017), later known as Yvonne Burney, was one of approximately forty female Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents who served in France. The objective of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents in France allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from Britain.
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