Elizabeth “Minnie” Devereux-Rochester was born on December 20, 1917, in New York. He was the son of Richmond Rochester Jr. and Aimee Margaret Lathrop Gunning Rochester Reynolds. She was educated by an English governess before attending Roedean School in England. During the 1930s, she lived in Paris with her mother. Following the German occupation of France, she worked as a driver for the French Red Cross and became involved in escape networks that assisted Jewish refugees and Allied personnel. She helped lead groups of refugees into Switzerland and later worked with the French Resistance, guiding Allied airmen across the Swiss border to safety. When that route became compromised, she helped establish a new escape route across the Pyrenees.

In early 1943, Devereux-Rochester joined the SOE and underwent specialized training before being deployed to occupied France on 18 October 1943 aboard a Lockheed Hudson aircraft of No. 161 Squadron RAF. Arriving alongside Richard Heslop, radio operator Owen Denis Johnson, and Jean Rosenthal, she served as a courier for the MARKSMAN Circuit. Concerns arose that her distinctly English appearance made her vulnerable to detection by German authorities. Plans were therefore made for her return to England in the spring of 1944. Instead, she traveled to Paris to visit her mother, where she was arrested by German authorities on 20 March 1944. She was imprisoned at Fresnes Prison before being transferred to the Vittel Internment Camp, where she remained until her liberation in 1945.

For her wartime service and bravery, Devereux-Rochester was awarded the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre by France. After the war, she returned to Paris and worked in advertising for the Vel d’Hiv. Following a lengthy legal dispute that concluded in 1957, she inherited a portion of the estate of Jane Stanford through an adoption arrangement involving Stanford’s niece, Amy Hansen. Shortly thereafter, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She spent her later years in Dinard, Brittany, and died in Rennes, France, on 19 March 1983. Currently, we don’t have details about his burial location.

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