A joint effort by Chair Louisa Russell and Paul McCue saw the culmination of considerable work when a blue plaque and information board were unveiled at Le Gothique, the restaurant in the building, coincidentally owned by Secret WW2 owner, Mark Justin.

54 people attended to watch the plaque unveiled by families of those who served at the LRC – Tom and Sue Roberts for their mother, Captain Nancy Fraser-Campbell of the FANY and F Section SOE; and Simon Bailey for his mother, Yvonne Baseden MBE, then of Air Intelligence, but who later became an agent of F Section SOE.

The information board was unveiled by families of those who were interrogated and security-cleared at the LRC – Richard and Mark Breen, for their father Sqn Ldr Arthur Breen OBE, MC, an agent of F Section, SOE and later a Jedburgh team member in Burma; Fred Greyer for his father Commandant Edgar Potier, a Belgian agent of MI9; and Thomas Liaudet whose grandfather, François Krisyk, went on to join the French SAS.

We were delighted to welcome a strong Polish contingent: from the Polish Airmen’s Association UK, from the Sikorski Institute and from the Polish Embassy no fewer than three colonels – the Defence Attaché and his two deputies. Defence attachés from Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway also attended.

A small group continued on the Hammerton, a care home in Balham, London SW12, that houses a blue plaque to F Section agents Andrée Borrell, Denise Bloch and Madeleine Damerment. All were cleared there (the Women’s Section of the LRC) and subsequently became agents of F Section, SOE. All three were executed.

Many thanks to Mark Justin for hosting us at Le Gothique and wanting the plaque and board, to Louisa for organisation, and to Ashley Barnett, Meryl Jones and Ian Titman (photography) who helped out on the day.