Adjacent ot the "Valley of Death" portion of the memorial.

A large plaque attached to a wall.

The plaque remembers many British Special Operation Executive (SOE) Team members who were captured during the course of the war and executed just before the war ended.  The list includes one American, 2LT Victor A. Soskice of the OSS.

2LT Soskice served with the OSS and was attached to Section F of the SOE British-led Scullion II operation.  which sought to sabotage the Nazi Les Telots shale oil refinery  Operation SCULLION  ll arrived in France on the night of 16/17 August 1943 to sabotage the Les Telots oil refinery near Autun, France after a previous operation called SCULLION l had failed. The team consisted of nine British operatives, four French, one American, and one Canadian. The team damaged the refinery with explosives but there are differing views of how effective the operation was, and several were captured. They were brought together in Flossenbürg Concentration Camp in April 1944.

After months of suffering, all were executed. Two were shot in 1944, the others were hanged on 29 March 1945.

Source: Traces of War

SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE (SOE)

TO THE MEMORY OF:

F.G. Michel
G.D.A. Bieler
J.C.S. Agazarian
P.J. Amphlett
J.F. Amps
G.W.H. Demand
R. Dowlen
M.G.F. Fox
H.H. Graham
E.F. Levene
J.F.G. Mennesson
B.D. Rafferty
D.W. Sibree
V.A. Soskice UNITED STATES ARMY
J. Worms

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN, IN THE MORNING

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM