This year’s ceremony and events included an important addition in the form of a paying tribute at a memorial to Max Hymans, the local MP who received Georges Bégué, the first F Section agent to be parachuted into France, on the night of 5^th/6th May 1941. It is because of this event that the F Section memorial was sited at Valençay and that the annual ceremony normally takes place on 6^th May. Presentations were given on 7^th May by Ronald Knoth (re OSS team PERCY PINK) and Friend of Secret ww2, David Harrison (re five escapes of F Section agents).

SECRET WW2’s contribution to the ceremony includes the poppy tributes (above left) and a pull-up banner, in French, giving photographs (above right with Louisa Russell and Meryl Jones) of all 104 agents listed at the memorial.

Rosie Pepper (above left) points to the photograph of Yvonne Rudellat and Hannah Byron, presently writing about Muriel Byck in a novel, finds Muriel’s photograph.

Family members of George Hiller, a senior F Section agent, with Paul McCue Far right), David Harrison (centre) and David Orr (far left), a writer and journalist.

Daniel Hymans (above right with the UK Air Attaché from the Paris Embassy) at his father’s memorial.