Site Updates.....

The definitive list of all updates to the site.

Date	Section Link	Description
Year 2005
22 Mar	They Also Served	Short memoir from Dulcie Oxland.
18 Mar	New Books	Two more new books: Airborne Espionage:International Special Duties Operations in the World Wars by David Oliver Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II by E. Bruce Reynolds
17 Mar	New Books	'A Life in Secrets. The story of Vera Atkins and SOE's Lost Agents' by Sarah Helm will be published in May 2005.
16 Mar	Female Agents	Nick Fox has sent me some photographs of the area, as it appears today, where Violette Szabo was dropped and captured on her second mission in to France.
15 Mar	Events	Today HRH The Princess Royal will open the new exhibition at Beaulieu about the estate and its roll in training SOE agents in WWII. I have the good fortune to have been invited so more news on this later in the week. The BBC has a story over here.
13 Mar		News that sculptor Karen Newman has a commission to produce one and a half times life-size head and shoulders in bronze of the second world war SOE heroine Violette Szabo. It is commissioned by a charity and proposed for a London park. Meanwhile you can read about Karen and her work on her site over here.
11 Mar	New Books	Details of Macus Binney's new book 'Secret War Heroes: Men of the Special Operations Executive.'
27 Feb	Events	News of The Women of World War II Memorial unveiling
25 Feb	Events	News of the Beaulieu Exhibition

Year 2004

19 Apr	Obituaries	Added obituaries for Lise Villameur (née de Baissac)
19 Apr	Female Agents	Added photograph and story of Pearl Cornioley's CBE honour.
31 Mar	Text Version	A last have added a text only version of the site.
29 Mar	Female Agents	Sadly Lise Villameur (née de Baissac) has died. A small tribute.
12 Mar	Female Agents	Added news item on Nancy Wake's award of the Companion in the Order of Australia.
04 Mar	Honours & Medals	Added information on the Companion in the Order of Australia
27 Feb	Female Agents	New article donated by Martin Sugarman titled "Daughters of Yael: Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE." The story of Denise Bloch and Muriel Byck.
25 Feb	Female Agents	Added Daily telegraph article on Yvonne Basedon
20 Feb	WWW Resources	Added an Obituaries page WWW Resources page updated, revised and expanded. Events & Media re-organised
16 Feb	Site Tools	Added a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

23 Jan	Obituaries	New section of obituaries for those involved in SOE

Year 2003

06 Dec	They Also Served	Added photos of Hermione Countess of Ranfurly
06 Dec	Honours & Medals	Updated the George Cross, US Distinguished Service Cross and the US Medal of Freedom pages.
05 Dec	Bibliography	Updated
27 Nov	Bibliography	A new expanded and updated bibliography in three versions and with downloadable RTF format files.
08 Oct	Organisations	New section on BBC added
01 Oct	Whole Site	Re-organised and tidied up

Year 2002
13 Jul	Events & Media	New section added
10 Jul	They Also Served	Added article on Hermione Countess of Ranfurly
08 Jul	Whole Site	Total re-design of the site and now live.
25 May	Web Resources	Added a link to the "We Were In It Too!" web site.
19 Mar	They Also Served	Added a further article on Sue Ryder from the East Anglian Daily Times
05 Mar	People	Added two new articles on Leo Marks donated by the London Evening Standard
26 Feb	Charlotte Gray	Added a few pictures taken at the première of Charlotte Gray
18 Feb	Female Agents	Added a new biogaphy of Sonya "Tony" D'Artois. Have also updated the biographies and added pictures of Lise de Baissac, Nancy Wake and Pearl Witherington
10 Feb	FANY Reminicences	Added a new section called 'FANY Reminiscences'
09 Feb	Female Agents	Added short biographies of Denise Bloch, Eileen Nearne and Yvonne Rudellat, all FANYs and Yvonne Baseden and Cecily Lefort, both WAAFs.
09 Feb	They Also Served	Added short biographies of Anna Rizzo & sisters Germaine and Madeleine Tambour
09 Feb	Organisations	Added a small history of the W.A.A.F.
08 Feb	Organisations	Added a history of S.O.E. F Section
02 Feb	Female Agents	Added a biography of Diana Rowden. I would like to record my thanks to the author, Rita Kramer, for her continuing support and contributions to the site
04 Jan	Web Resources	New link added to the Imperial War Museum for the forthcoming major exhibition in 2003 'Women in Uniform'
Year 2001
18 Nov	Female Agents	Added information on Eliane Plewman
15 Nov	Female Agents	Added information on Madeleine Damerment
12 Nov	They Also Served	Added a new section 'They Also Served' to cover the females who were not agents but also worked for SOE
08 Nov	Female Agents	Added a new animation to the 'Female Agents'
01 Nov	Main Page	Updated info on "Charlotte Gray" film and the new photo book
19 Oct	Whole Site	Site design improved
July	Bibliography	The Public Records Office publish a new book "SOE Syllabus. Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare, World War II"
02 Apr	Web Resources	Added link to the Railway Women in Wartime Britain web site
17 Mar	Web Resources	Added link to the Nancy Wake web site
17 Mar	Agents	Updated the Nancy Wake page with news of Nancy and a recent photograph
05 Mar	Agents	Biography added to the Sonia Olschanezky page
27 Feb	Agents	Biography added to the Andrée Borrel page
26 Feb	Agents	Biography added to the Vera Leigh page
09 Feb	Site Map	Site Map added
25 Jan	People	Leo Marks obituary added on his death
Year 2000
12 Nov	Memorials	Latest news on the national memorial to the Women of WWII
12 Nov	Memorials	Added section on the F.A.N.Y. Remembrance Day 2000 service
10 Nov	Agents	Added a section on Lilian Rolfe
28 Oct	Memorials	Updated information on the National Memorial to the Women of WWII
15 Oct	Bibliography	Having updated my bibliography software I have generated a newer bibliography
23 Sep	Bibliography	Now added a Film & Video section
21 Sep	Honour & Medals	Added a section about the US Medal of Freedom (Presidential Medal of Freedom)
21 Sep	Agents	Added a page for Nancy Wake 'The White Mouse'
20 Sep	Honour & Medals	Added a section about the US Distinguished Service Cross
19 Sep	Agents	Added a page for Virginia Hall
19 Sep	Gadgets	The gadgets and devices dreamed up by the ingenious minds at SOE
10 Sep	Memorials	New section on the proposed national memorial to the Women of WWII
29 Aug	Guestbook	Added a guestbook to the web site
29 Aug	Search	Added facility to search the web site
26 Aug	People	Information about the web site author added
30 Jul	Web Resources	Updated the WWW resources links
29 Jul	People	A page for Corie Johnson, author of a forthcoming book on the three female agents who were awardedthe George Cross
19 Jul	Honour & Medals	Added a section with details of the Honours & Medals awarded
18 Jul	Transport	Finished adding aircraft involved with SOE
15 Jul	Transport	Added new section covering SOE transport
15 Jul	Heroines	Added obituary for Yvonne Cormeau
15 Jul	Agents	Added picture of Pearl Witheringtom
06 Jul	Whole site	Created seperate web site and moved from my other web site at www.metroland.org
04 Jul	Agents	Vera Atkins died 24th June 2000 obituary
05 Mar	UK Memorial	Added the London memorial pages