DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ANGELAUD, Robert

Landes’s locally trained radio operator on his second mission.

ARTAGNAN, Charles

Business friend of the Grandcléments. Arrested with Lucette.

BAISSAC de, Claude

SOE F Section head of Scientist circuit.

BAISSAC de, Lise

SOE F Section courier and liaison officer of Scientist circuit and organiser of ‘Artist’ circuit based in Poitiers.

BASILIO, André

Russian Bordeaux resistant and contact of Pierre Meunier, with whom he shared a mistress (Madame Plante).

BERTRAND, Marcel and Mme

Owners of Café des Chartrons, Scientist circuit headquarters and ‘letterbox’ in Bordeaux.

BÖMELBURG, Karl

SS-Sturmbannführer and head of the Gestapo in France. Dohse’s patron.

BONNIER, Claude

Personal representative and Regional Military Delegate of General de Gaulle for southwest France (Region B).

BORDES, Alban

Leader of a resistant group and one of Landes’s key lieutenants.

BORREL, Andrée

SOE F Section courier and liaison officer for Francis Suttill’s Prosper circuit.

BOUILLAR, André

Leader of a resistant group and one of Landes’s key lieutenants. Acted as Landes’s guide across the Pyrenees in late 1943.

BUCKMASTER, Maurice

Head of SOE’s F Section.

CAMPET, Christian

Roger Landes’s second-in-command on his second mission.

CAMPLAN, Eugène

Head of the southwest OCM, after André Grandclément.

CARALP-JARDEL, Marcelle

Owner of one of Landes’s safe houses in Bordeaux.

CAZENAVE, Franck

One of Landes’s lieutenants. Owner of a villa at Belin-Béliet. Chief of the parachute reception team at Saugnacq-et-Muret.

CHASTEL, Jeanne

Lucette Grandclément’s mother.

CHAZEAU, Roland

Key lieutenant of Grandclément.

CLECH, Marcel

Radio operator of the Monkeypuzzle circuit.

COMINETTI, François

Maquis leader who sold Allied escaped pilots to the Germans and offered to sell Landes.

CORBIN, Charles

Police inspector, Bordeaux resistant and Landes’s trusted friend. Father of Ginette.

CORBIN, Ginette

Daughter of Charles Corbin; courier for Roger Landes and Marcel Défence.

CRESSWELL, Michael

Organiser of an MI9 escape network through Spain.

CULIOLI, Pierre

Member of Monkeypuzzle circuit and then leader, with Yvonne Rudellat, of Adolphe circuit.

CUSIN, Gaston

General de Gaulle’s Commissioner of the Republic in Bordeaux in 1944.

DAUBÈZE, Renée

Cared for Landes for two weeks after his second parachute jump into France, March 1944.

DÉFENCE, Marcel

Sent by SOE to assist Landes as a radio operator on his second mission.

DÉRICOURT, Henri

SOE F Section organiser of landing operations in the Loire valley. A double – or maybe triple – agent who supplied Bömelburg with information.

DEWAVRIN, André

Head of General de Gaulle’s Intelligence Bureau in London.

DOHSE, Friedrich

Gestapo head of counter-espionage for southwest France.

DUBOUÉ, Jean

Restaurateur and early Bordeaux resistant; founder with Leo Paillère of a local network which was subsequently subsumed into Scientist circuit.

DUBOUÉ Suzanne

Jean Duboué’s daughter. Courier for Duboué–Paillère group and Scientist circuit.

DUBOUÉ Marie-Louise

Jean Duboué’s wife.

DULUGUET, Marc

Bordeaux resistant, acted as bodyguard to Grandclément.

DUSSARRAT, Léonce

One of Roger Landes’s key lieutenants. Owner of an ironmonger’s shop in Dax.

ENZELSBERGER, Anton

One of Kunesch’s men; Austrian and known as ‘Tony the Boxer’.

ESCH, Pierre

The official French interpreter at KdS Bordeaux.

EXPERT, Michel

One of Landes’s radio operators.

FAGET, Marguerite (‘Mitou’)

Landes’s landlady, courier and mistress.

FAYE, Max

Landes’s driver and personal bodyguard.

FLOWER, Raymond

SOE F Section head of the Monkeypuzzle circuit.

FOSSARD, Christian

Young resistant in Bordeaux. Interrogated by Dohse.

GAILLARD, Charles

Personal representative and Regional Military Delegate of General de Gaulle for southwest France (Region B) after Claude Bonnier. Worked with Landes before the liberation of Bordeaux.

GRANDCLÉMENT, André

Insurance salesman and early resistant; head of the southwest OCM. Friedrich Dohse’s key agent in dismantling the Resistance in the southwest.

GRANDCLÉMENT, Lucette

Mistress and then wife of André Grandclément.

GRANDIER-VAZEILLE, Etienne

Resistance leader of the Alouette group. Arrested in the summer of 1943.

HAGEN, Herbert

First head of KdS Bordeaux.

HAYES, Victor

SOE F Section agent sent to southwest France as a sabotage instructor. Worked with Jean Duboué.

HÈCHE, Gaston

Restaurateur and head of escape line and safe house in Tarbes.

HERBERT, Mary

SOE F Section courier for Scientist circuit. Had a daughter (Claudine) by Claude de Baissac.

JOUBERT, Louis

Early resistant and senior member of southwest OCM. Teacher with connections to Bordeaux University. Leader of local Protestant community. Led the mission to Algiers.

JOUFFRAULT, Paul

Regional leader of OCM group and Grandclément’s uncle.

JULIEN, Georges

Senior resistant sent by Paris to reorganise the Resistance in southwest France.

KEIMER, Claire

Dohse’s personal assistant and mistress.

KNOCHEN, Helmut

Senior commander in Paris for the German security police and intelligence.

KUNESCH, Rudolf

Dohse’s rival in KdS Bordeaux; known as the ‘cosher-in-chief’.

LABIT, Henri

SOE RF/F Section sent to southwest France on sabotage mission; Charles Corbin’s nephew.

LANDES, Roger

SOE F Section radio operator for Scientist circuit on his first mission; leader of Actor circuit on his second mission.

LARROSE, Jean-Philippe

Official French interpreter for KdS in Bordeaux.

LASSALLE, Josette

Early Bordeaux resistant.

LEROY, Robert

One of the first SOE F Section agents sent to the occupied zone. Linked up with Jean Duboué.

LUTHER, Hans

Second head of KdS Bordeaux after Hagen.

LUZE de, Édouard

Leader of the Arcachon resistant group.

MALEYRAN, André

Key lieutenant of Grandclément.

MANOLITSAKIS, John

Greek SOE F Section agent sent to help Landes.

MACHULE, Walter

Third head of KdS Bordeaux.

MEUNIER, Pierre

Canadian SOE F Section agent sent to help Landes.

MORRAGLIA, Jean-Baptiste

Military commander of all French Resistance forces 1944 (FFI).

NOËL, André

Key French resistant in Bordeaux. Worked with Landes on his first mission. Said to have been close to Grandclément.

NORMAN, Gilbert

SOE F Section radio operator to Prosper circuit.

NOUAUX, Lucien

Leader of one of Landes’s Resistance groups in Bordeaux.

O’NEILL, Marc

Key Resistance leader in the OCM, Paris; ex-school friend of Grandclément.

PAILLÈRE, Léo

Early Bordeaux resistant and co-founder of Duboué-Paillère network. One-time chief of the southwest OCM. Worked with Scientist circuit.

PEULEVÉ, Harry

SOE F Section radio operator and later head of the ‘Author’ circuit in the Corrèze.

POINSOT, Pierre Napoléon

Head of the SAP in Bordeaux and an agent of Dohse’s; worked in close cooperation with the KdS.

RIQUET, Michel

Respected Catholic priest and early Paris resistant. A Jesuit who was very influential in Catholic circles.

ROLLOT, Jacques

Key southwest OCM resistant. Son belonged to Lencouacq Maquis.

RUDELLAT, Yvonne

SOE F Section courier to Monkeypuzzle circuit and leader, with Culioli, of Adolphe circuit.

SALLES, Paul

Young Bordeaux resistant and member of the Lencouacq Maquis.

SCHMALTZ, Fernand

One of Roger Landes’s key lieutenants. Leader of the Bordeaux railwaymen (cheminots).

SOMMER, Marcelle

Head of intelligence section, KdS Bordeaux. Close to Dohse.

SUTTILL, Francis

SOE F Section head of Prosper circuit

THINIÈRES, André

Senior resistant in the southwest OCM. Ex-French army colonel. Accompanied Joubert on mission to Algiers.

TOUNY, Alfred

Head of OCM. Based in Paris.