Jack Agazarian Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian ( 27 August 1915 – 29 March 1945 ) was a British espionage agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) inside France . He was captured and killed by the Nazis when he sought to confirm the status of a resistance cell that the Nazis had compromised . Agazarian was born in London , to an Armenia n father , Berdge Rupen Agazarian , and French mother , Jacqueline Marie - Louise Le Chevalier Agazarian , the second of six children . He was educated in both France and England at Dulwich College . After completing his education he worked with his father in the family business . After joining the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of World War II , he was recruited as a wireless operator by the SOE . His younger brother , Noel Agazarian , also joined the Royal Air Force but as a Spitfire pilot ; he went on to be a flying ace in the Battle of Britain before being killed in action on 16 May 1941 . In December 1942 Agazarian arrived in Paris to join the newly formed Prosper network of the SOE and was joined later by his wife Francine . He occasionally worked for Henri Dericourt , a former French Air Force pilot whose job was to find landing grounds and arrange receptions for SOE agents arriving by air . At this time he began to question Dericourt ' s loyalty and reported to London his own and other agents ' suspicions . Agazarian became known to the Gestapo , and on several occasions he narrowly escaped arrest . SOE Circuit leader Francis Suttill considered Agazarian ' s continued presence to be a security risk . On 16 June 1943 Agazarian was returned to England where he reiterated his concerns about Dericourt ' s loyalty to Nicholas Bodington and Maurice Buckmaster , who were nevertheless unconvinced . However , when agent Noor Inyat Khan lost contact with the Prosper group , headquarters became increasingly concerned . Leo Marks , the SOE ' s head of codes and ciphers , became convinced that Gilbert Norman , the group ' s wireless operator , was transmitting under German control . Agazarian joined Bodington ( who was still sceptical ) in a mission to France to determine the status of the Prosper network , departing 22 July 1943 . Bodington , working through headquarters , arranged a meeting with Gilbert Norman at a pre - arranged address in the rue de Rome near Gare St - Lazare , but it was Agazarian , not Bodington who went to the meeting . The concerns about the Prosper network proved well - founded . German forces had indeed compromised the network , and Agazarian was taken prisoner at the meeting . Three members of the network , courier Andrée Borrel , leader Francis Suttill and wireless operator Gilbert Norman , had been in custody since 23 June , and Norman ' s transmissions had indeed been made by the Germans . Henri Dericourt ' s role in the loss of the Prosper network remains unclear ; after the war he was tried as a double agent , but acquitted for lack of evidence . In fact he was a triple agent working for Secret Intelligence Service and that the SOE agents had been sacrificed to distract German attentions from landings in Sicily and Normandy . The arrest of Agazarian , who knew a great deal about the Prosper network , was a massive coup for the Germans . He endured torture for six months at Fresnes prison and was then moved to Flossenbürg concentration camp . After being kept there in solitary confinement , Agazarian was executed on 29 March 1945 . Jack Agazarian is honored on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey , England , on the SOE memorial at Flossenbürg and also on the Roll of Honor on the Valençay SOE Memorial in Valençay , in the Indre département of France