Eliane Plewman


Eliane Plewman was a British member of Special Operations Executive an agent and member of the French Resistance working in the MONK circuit in occupied France during World War II. She was involved in a number of highly successful sabotage missions but was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo later being murdered by the SS at Dachau Concentration Camp.

Plewman was born Eliane Sophie BrowneBartroli in Marseilles, France. The daughter of a successful English manufacturer based in France, Eugene Henry BrowneBartroli and his Spanish born wife Elisa Francesca , she was educated in England and in Spain at the British School in Madrid. When she finished college she moved to Leicester to work for a clothing and fabric importexport company in Albion Street, Leicester, using her language skills in English, French, Spanish and some Portuguese.

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