Monday, April 29, 2019

claude de BAISSAC, French resistance, pencil sketch by Dr k Prabhakar rao


CLAUDE DE BAISSAC! FRENCH. RESISTANCE. FIGHTER, WW II,
Claude Denis Boucherville de Baissac, DSO and bar, CdeG, known as Claude de Baissac or by his codename David (born 28 February 1907, Curepipe, Mauritius; died 22 December 1974) was a Mauritian of French descent who became an agent in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He organised the important French Resistance network SCIENTIST, in southwest France from August 1942 to March 1943 and in Brittany from February 1944 onwards. His elder sister Lise was also an SOE agent.

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