18/04/2025
Norwich, GB 15 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

MARK WHEELER, aged 74

An American academic who lived in the UK, he became the expert on Yugoslavia, helping rebuild the country after its dissolution, working for the United Nations.

NICOLA TRAHAN, aged 97

A French schoolgirl who joined the SOE and was regularly parachuted into France, assisting the Resistance in fighting the Nazis. She received the Croix de Guerre.

PIPPA LATOUR, aged 102

The longest surviving female SOE agent working in occupied France, she paved the way for D-Day, but was never acknowledged by her male colleagues.

JEAN ARGLES, aged 97

She worked as an SOE operative, running agents throughout the war and deciphering codes, as her sister worked with Bletchley Park and her father was in a POW camp.