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May 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
🇫🇷🇬🇧#OTD in 1944, SOE F Section wireless operator Muriel Tamara Byck died whilst on active service in occupied France. She had been parachuted in with her team near Issoudon on 9 April 44. 1/4 Image
Muriel was born in London on 4 June 1918 to French Jewish parents - she went on to live in Germany and France before moving back to London with her parents in 1930. Her profile saw her being recruited by the SOE after she had joined the WAAF. 2/4 Image
After being parachuted in, she transmitted from the Sologne region south of Orleans and it was whilst there that she fell ill. Her leader Philippe de Vomécourt took her to see a doctor who diagnosed meningitis. De Vomécourt had no choice than to take her to hospital. 3/4
Muriel passed away at the 'hospice de Romorantin' and was buried at the local cemetery. It is said that local Resistance men fired a volley over her grave. After the war, her grave was moved far away to Pornic where she lies now in a CWGC cemetery. 4/4 ImageImage

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