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Lefort worked mostly in Drôme Department for the Jockey network. Cecile Margot Lefort (née Gordon, 30 April 1899 – February 1945) served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.
Feb 24, 2023 · Cecily Lefort was a British-born Frenchwoman who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. She was a courier for the Resistance, supplying weapons and equipment, and was captured and executed by the Gestapo in 1944.
Jun 17, 2020 · Cecily Lefort was a courier for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British organization that trained and sent spies to sabotage the Nazis. She flew to France with Noor Inayat Khan, a radio operator, and joined a resistance cell in the Rhone Valley.
Jun 21, 2011 · Cecily Margot Lefort (April 30, 1900 – May 1, 1945) was a heroine of World War II. Born in London of Scottish ancestry, Lefort lived on the coast of Brittany in France from the age of 24 with her French husband, Dr. Alex Lefort.
May 1, 2014 · World War II Heroine. Born in London, England, she was living in Brittany with her French-born husband, Alex Lefort, at the outbreak of World War II. The couple fled to England, but allowed their home to be made part of an escape line for downed Allied pilots. In 1941, Lefort joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air...
- Greater London, England
- April 30, 1899
Cecily or Cicely Margot LEFORT, aka Cecile Marguerite LEGRAND - born 30.04.1900, executed 01.03.1945 at Ravensbruck concentration camp. With photographs. Date: 1939-1946 Held by: The National...
May 18, 2023 · Cicely Lefort passed through the SOE training schools towards the end of 1942 and was described by the training team as “Being very lady like and very English in spite of her French background.” Lefort was born in London and married a Frenchman in 1925, they lived in Brittany and escaped to England shortly before the occupation.
