Brookwood Memorial to the Missing, 1939-45, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey. At our annual ceremony we again remembered the 23 Palmach volunteers who disappeared on SOE’s OPERATION BOATSWAIN in 1941, together with Major Sir Anthony Palmer, their SOE liaison officer. In addition to our good friends at AJEX we welcomed Colonel Yoav Shani, Defence and Armed Forces Attaché, UK and Ireland, of the London Embassy of the State of Israel, Rabbi Alex Goldberg of Guildford Synagogue and the University of Surrey, and Martha Desmond, Chief People Officer of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Ensign Denise Bloch (pictured below), a French Jewish agent of F Section SOE, was the subject of individual remembrance and Mica Grynbaum, Assistant Defence and Armed Forces Attaché, placed a wreath in Denise’s memory. Colonel Shani also placed a wreath, as did Colonel (retd) Nick Fox and Mike Bluestone of AJEX on behalf of SECRET WW2 and AJEX respectively.