Edward Wilkinson
1902–1944
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- spy
Edward (Teddy) Mountford Wilkinson (1902–1944) (code named Alexandre) was an agent in France of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II.
Incarceration history
- Mauthausen concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Edward (Teddy) Mountford Wilkinson (1902–1944) (code named Alexandre) was an agent in France of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by Nazi Germany or other Axis powers. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. Wilkinson was parachuted into France in 1942, captured by Germans but freed by a French official that same year, captured again by the Germans in 1943, and executed in 1944. France awarded Wilkinson the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 and he was mentioned in despatches. He is mentioned on the Valençay SOE Memorial and panel 210 of the Runnymede Memorial.