THE ALLIED SPECIAL FORCES MEMORIAL GROVE IS SITUATED WITHIN THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL ARBORETUM BY THE BANKS OF THE RIVER TAME
 THE ALLIED SPECIAL FORCES ROLL OF  HONOUR

Special Operations Executive

Surnames M to P

We are intending to list all Allied Special Forces casualties from the 2nd. World War and in the conflicts since. If you wish to add to this detail please contact us! Certain information may be under review and this is noted under the name. This list is not complete and some inaccuracies may occur whilst we are receiving information from many sources.


MACALISTER Captain John Kenneth 257470 14th. September Age 30
Intelligence Corps attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 21. Column 1.
MACKINGTOSH Lt. Colonel John Ali 102728 4th. January 1945 Age -
intelligence Corps. - Special Operations Executive
SOE - Worked under commercial cover, Turkey - Died of Typhoid
INSTANBUL (Ferikoi) PROTESTANT CEMETERY, TURKEY - Grave 3768
MacKINTOSH Captain Stanley McLeod EC/12389 16th. June 1945 Age 27
16th. Punjab Regiment - Special Operations Executive
SOE 36 Mission India - Died of Typhoid
CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY, THAILAND - 3-B-4
MAITLAND-MAKGILL
CRICHTON
Lieutenant David 121526 24th. February 1941 Age -
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers attd. Special Operations Executive
Lost in S.S. Jonathan Holt (Liverpool)
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 9. Column 1.
MAKOWSKI Captain Stanislaw 204697 23rd. August 1944 Age 30
General List - Special Operations Executive
SOE F Section - Codename Maurice - Circuit St. Pall
Wounded and Arrested 17th. August 1944 - Executed at Romorantin
Croix-de-Guerre
PORNIC WAR CEMETERY - LOIRE-ATLANTIQUE, FRANCE - 2.AB.17
MALRAUX Lieutenant Claude Raymond 316119 18th. April 1944 Age 23
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
MARCHANT Captain Godfrey 156829 1st. April 1945 Age 35
Intelligence Corps. attd. Special Operations Executive
Military Cross - Codename Somerset - Possibly in the same Jedburgh Team as Peter Mcleod Colvin - Jedburgh Team Felix
BANGLADESH - CHITTAGONG WAR CEMETERY - 3. F. 10
MARTIN Major W.B. - 25th. January 1945 Age -
Special Operations Executive
SOE - Operation Carpenter - Malaya - Killed in Action
RANGOON MEMORIAL - Myanmar Face 19
MARTIN-LEAKE Major Stephen Philip 146448 7th. June 1944 Age 38
Intelligence Corps attd. Special Operations Executive
Served as Stephen Leake
GREECE - ATHENS MEMORIAL - Face 9.
MARTINOVIC
(REIK)
(ROBINSON)
Sergeant Martha
(Chaviva/Havivah)
(Ada)
2992503 20th. November 1944 Age 30
H.Q. Womens Aux. Air Force attd. Special Operations Executive
Served as Ada Robinson and known also as Chaviva Reik.
Codename Emma - Took part in Operation Amsterdam to Slovakia
POW October 1944 and Executed at Kremnica 20th. November 1944
Repatriated to Israel Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, Israel
(Formerly buried in Olseny War Cemetery, Prague, Czechoslovakia).
MATHIEU Sergeant R.M.A. - - Age -
French Army - F Section - Special Operations Executive
SOE F. Section Memorial - VALENCAY, FRANCE
MAUGENET Lieutenant Andre Adrian Jules 211681 15th. November 1943 Age 39
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
MAYER Lieutenant James Andrew 301337 14th. September 1944 Age 24
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
McBAIN Pilot Officer George Basil 71102 1st. May 1945 Age -
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Special Operations Executive
SOE F Section - Codename Cecil - Circuit Liontamer
Arrested March 1944 - Executed at Gross Rosen
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, SURREY - Panel 268
McCRINDLE Captain Eric John ABRO/441 15th. February 1944 Age 32
Army of Burma Reserve of Officers attd. Special Operations Executive
S.O.E. Burma Section. Executed.
BURMA - RANGOON MEMORIAL - Myanmar Face 111
MELLOWS Captian Thomas Anthony 166686 21st. August 1944 Age 24
27th. Lancers RAC attd. Special Operations Executive
Codename Elase. Jedburgh Team Martin.
FRANCE - MONT-DE-MARSAN COMMUNAL CEMETERY - 3.5.23
MENESSON Captain James Francis George 183054 29th. March 1945 Age 30
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
Member of the British Empire
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 21. Column 3.
MICHEL Lieutenant Francois Gerard 294434 1st.-15th. June 1944 Age 29
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
Served as Frank Mitchell
FRANCE - BAYEUX MEMORIAL - Calvados - Panel 19. Column1.
MOCH - Andre - February 1944 Age -
Special Operations Executive
Locally Recruited - Pimento Circuit (Aide to Tony Brooks)
Killed by Malice
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MULSANT Captain Pierre Louis 309473 5th. October 1944 Age 30
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
Military Cross
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 21. Column 3.
MULGAN Lt. Colonel John Alan Edward 91369ME/14500130 26th. April 1945 Age 33
Ox and Bucks Light Infantry - Special Operations Executive
SOE Force 133 - Suicide from Morhine overdose in Cairo
HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY - Egypt - 6.J.1.
MUVRIN Serjeant Nick ME/14500130 18th. May 1944 Age -
366 Coy. Pioneer Corps attd. Special Operations Executive
Served as Nick Munroe.
GREECE - ATHENS MEMORIAL - Face 9
NEWMAN Captain Isidore 216306 7th. September 1944 Age 28
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
Member of the British Empire
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 21. Column 3.
NICHOLLS Brigadier Arthur Frederick Crane - 11th. February 1944 Age 33
Coldstream Guards attd. Special Operations Executive
George Cross - "Awarded the George Cross for most conspicuous gallantry in carrying out work in a very brave manner."
ALBANIA - TIRANA PARK MEMORIAL CEMETERY
NIMMO Major James Russell ABRO/274 15th. February 1944 Age 31
Army of Burma Reserve of Officers attd. Special Operations Executive
Distinguished Service Order - S.O.E. Burma Section. Executed.
BURMA - RANGOON WAR CEMETERY - Myanmar 2.G.17
NOONE 2nd. Lieutenant Herbert Deane - 3rd. March 1943 Age 36
Federated Malay Scouts Volunteer Force attd. Special Operations Executive
S.O.E. Malaya - Disappeared.
SINGAPORE - SINGAPORE MEMORIAL - Col. 389
NORMAN Major Gilbert Maurice 156759 6th. September 1944 Age 29
Durham Light Infantry attd. Special Operations Executive
Mentioned in Despatches
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 14. Column 1.
OGDEN-SMITH Major Colin 91977 29th. July 1944 Age -
Royal Artillery attd. Special Operations Executive
Served with the Small Scale Raiding Force, 2 SAS and the Jedburgh Team Francis.
Codename Dorset.
FRANCE - GUISCRIFF COMMUNAL CEMETERY
OLSCHANEZKY Sous Lieutenant Sonia - 6th. July 1944 Age 20
French Forces & Special Operations Executive
Recruited locally - Juggler Circuit - Executed Natzweiler
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OPOCZYNSKI
(ORR)
Serjeant Abram
(Adam)
6387010 12th. April 1945 Age 23
Pioneer Corps - Royal West Kent Regiment
Special Operations Executive & Small Scale Raiding Force
In early 1942 he was sent to Special Training School (STS) No. 62 and then in May 1942 he went to STS HQ Area 98. He was listed missing on 12th. September 1942 and then confirmed as a Prisoner of War on 17th. September 1942 during Operation Aquatint (13th. September 1942). Presumed Killed in Action on or shortly after 12th. April 1945

Other source of info: - POW 15th. September 1942 - Adam Orr and Private Jan Helling (Dutch) - Both disappeared along with Captain John Burton of the Lincolnshire Regiment who survived the war as a POW in Germany.

Killed in Action were Major March-Phillips, Sergeant Alan Williams and Richard Lehinger (Leonard)
DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY - Bayern - 3.F.10
PARDI Lieutenant Paul Baptiste 297148 19th. May 1944 Age 24
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
PALMER Major Sir Anthony Frederick Mark 63572 18th. May 1941 Age 26
Royal Artillery attd. Special Operations Executive
Major Sir Anthony Palmer was the Operational Commander of "Operation Boatswain". He along with 23 Jewish Volunteers was tasked to destroy the oil refineries in the Port of Tripoli, Lebanon. The force set sail on the 18th. May 1941 in the "Sea Lion".
The operation was not carried out and nothing more was heard about these men.
UK - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Panel 2. Column 1.
PEARSON - D.M. - 1944/1945 Age -
Special Operations Executive
Pedagogue Circuit - Executed Gross Rosen 1944/1945 - Source Secret War by Nigel West
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PENDLEBURY Captain John Devitt Stringfellow 115317 22nd. May 1941 Age 36
General List - Special Operations Executive
SOE Crete - Killed in Action
SUDA BAY WAR CEMETERY, GREECE - 10.E.13
PERKINS Staff Sergeant Dudley Churchill 1772 25th. February 1944 Age 29
4 Field Regiment. New Zealand Artillery attd. Special Operations Executive
S.O.E. Crete - Killed in German Ambush
GREECE - SUDA BAY WAR CEMETERY - 15.G.12
PERTSCHUK Lieutenant Maurice 216751 29th. March 1945 Age 23
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
Member of the British Empire
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
PICHL Lieutenant Otto 318482 31st. August 1944 Age -
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
PICKERSGILL Captain Frank Herbert Dedrick - 14th. September 1944 Age 29
Canadian Intelligence Corps attd. Special Operations Executive
NETHERLANDS - GROESBEEK MEMORIAL - Panel 11.
PLEWMAN Ensign Elaine Sophie F/23 13th. September 1944 Age -
Womans Transport Service (F.A.N.Y.) attd. Special Operations Executive - Croix de Guerre (France)
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 26. Column 3.
POTIER Captain Dominique Edgard Antoine - 8/11th. January 1944 Age 40
Belgian Airforce and RAF - Special Operations Executive
Alias 'Martin' & 'Commander Nollet' - MI9 Possum escape network
Captain Potier threw himself over the internal gallery of Reims Prison, after extreme torture. He died on the 11th. January 1944 in the American Memorial Hospital, Reims. The Possum escape network was also known as Mission Martin.
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 21. Column 3.
POXON Private Ernest 3856678 22nd. August 1944 Age 25
2nd. Battalion Loyal Regiment (North Lancs) - Special Operations Executive
SOE Far East
Singapore Memorial - Column 74
PRASSINOS Lieutenant Mario Lambros Achilles 294435 4th. March 1945 Age 27
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
Formerly of Patline Escape Group
Order of the British Empire
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.