Really Interesting People - SOE (Special Operations Executive)

Europe 11/07/2022

ROSSANA BANTI, aged 96

Red in name, red in dress, red in politics, Rossana was one of the “Terrible Girls of Rome”, in the Italian Resistance during the war. Later she was part of the SOE – code number 007. In later life she was a television producer.

UK 01/07/2022

HELEN TAYLOR – THOMPSON, aged 96

Helen worked for the Special Operations Executive in the war, organising resistance in France. She later became a business woman and tireless worker for charity. She was the driving force behind Mildmay Hospital, an AIDS hospice and had to overcome fierce opposition until she got the support of Princess Diana.