Maurice Buckmaster

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Maurice James Buckmaster (11 January 1902 – 17 April 1992) was the leader of the French section F of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers. SOE agents in France created or allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment via parachute. From 1941 to 1944 under Buckmaster's leadership, SOE F Section sent about 470 agents into France which was occupied by Nazi Germany. Ninety-one men and 13 women were killed, executed, or died in concentration camps while working as agents in France. Apart from his war service, Buckmaster was a corporate manager with the French branch of the Ford Motor Company, in the postwar years serving in Dagenham. He wrote two memoirs about his work with the SOE.

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