Pic of his memorial stone is with his sister! other records state St Ives Parish Church St Ives
born Wilfred /Wildfred Rosenberg later referred to as Guy Atkins
m. Phoebe Rosenberg-Atkins nee Atkins 1936-Aug 13 2009 Zennor Cornwall England, who took possession of Vera's papers upon her death
son of Max Rosenberg m. Zefra Hilde Atkins
brother of Vera May Atkins 1908-2000 #66041739 &
Ralph Rosenberg 1905 South Africa - 1964
His sister Vera
British officer served with F Section, Special Operations Executive at Headquarters, 64 Baker Street, London, GB, 1941-1945 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80009338 Oral History featuring Vera
BOOKS:
The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive by Marcus Binney 2002
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE By Sarah Helm 2005
Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson Feb 15 2006
Vera's family
Wilfred Rosenberg (later Guy Atkins), brother
Wilfred & Phoebe's daughter Zenna Atkins b.@1966 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/oct/26/zenna-atkins-gems-free-schools former chair of Ofsted, now appointed "chief executive, UK, Europe and Africa" of the private school company Gems Education. May also have benefited from unorthodox childhood role models. Her aunt was Vera Atkins, originally from Romania, who was a British intelligence officer in the second world war and allegedly the model for Miss Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Zenna's godmother, an old friend of her mother's, was Shirley Conran b.21 Sept 1932 a British novelist and journalist, author of Superwoman.
They were cousins Rudolf Vrba 1924-2006 #26950427 & #127714164
Vera became involved with a young British pilot, Dick Ketton-Cremer, #183194805 whom she had met in Egypt, and to whom she may have been briefly engaged. He was killed in action in the Battle of Crete on 23 May 1941.
Her memorial plaque, which is shared with her brother Guy, is in the northern wall at St Senara's churchyard in Zennor, Cornwall where her ashes were scattered. The inscription reads "Vera May Atkins, CBE Légion d'honneur Coix guerre [sic]". The stonemason misspelled Croix de Guerre"
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/virginia-hall
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Atkins
Vera Recruited Virginia Hall
born Wilfred /Wildfred Rosenberg later referred to as Guy Atkins
m. Phoebe Rosenberg-Atkins nee Atkins 1936-Aug 13 2009 Zennor Cornwall England, who took possession of Vera's papers upon her death
son of Max Rosenberg m. Zefra Hilde Atkins
brother of Vera May Atkins 1908-2000 #66041739 &
Ralph Rosenberg 1905 South Africa - 1964
His sister Vera
British officer served with F Section, Special Operations Executive at Headquarters, 64 Baker Street, London, GB, 1941-1945 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80009338 Oral History featuring Vera
BOOKS:
The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive by Marcus Binney 2002
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE By Sarah Helm 2005
Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson Feb 15 2006
Vera's family
Wilfred Rosenberg (later Guy Atkins), brother
Wilfred & Phoebe's daughter Zenna Atkins b.@1966 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/oct/26/zenna-atkins-gems-free-schools former chair of Ofsted, now appointed "chief executive, UK, Europe and Africa" of the private school company Gems Education. May also have benefited from unorthodox childhood role models. Her aunt was Vera Atkins, originally from Romania, who was a British intelligence officer in the second world war and allegedly the model for Miss Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Zenna's godmother, an old friend of her mother's, was Shirley Conran b.21 Sept 1932 a British novelist and journalist, author of Superwoman.
They were cousins Rudolf Vrba 1924-2006 #26950427 & #127714164
Vera became involved with a young British pilot, Dick Ketton-Cremer, #183194805 whom she had met in Egypt, and to whom she may have been briefly engaged. He was killed in action in the Battle of Crete on 23 May 1941.
Her memorial plaque, which is shared with her brother Guy, is in the northern wall at St Senara's churchyard in Zennor, Cornwall where her ashes were scattered. The inscription reads "Vera May Atkins, CBE Légion d'honneur Coix guerre [sic]". The stonemason misspelled Croix de Guerre"
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/virginia-hall
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Atkins
Vera Recruited Virginia Hall
Pic of his memorial stone is with his sister! other records state St Ives Parish Church St Ives
born Wilfred /Wildfred Rosenberg later referred to as Guy Atkins
m. Phoebe Rosenberg-Atkins nee Atkins 1936-Aug 13 2009 Zennor Cornwall England, who took possession of Vera's papers upon her death
son of Max Rosenberg m. Zefra Hilde Atkins
brother of Vera May Atkins 1908-2000 #66041739 &
Ralph Rosenberg 1905 South Africa - 1964
His sister Vera
British officer served with F Section, Special Operations Executive at Headquarters, 64 Baker Street, London, GB, 1941-1945 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80009338 Oral History featuring Vera
BOOKS:
The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive by Marcus Binney 2002
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE By Sarah Helm 2005
Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson Feb 15 2006
Vera's family
Wilfred Rosenberg (later Guy Atkins), brother
Wilfred & Phoebe's daughter Zenna Atkins b.@1966 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/oct/26/zenna-atkins-gems-free-schools former chair of Ofsted, now appointed "chief executive, UK, Europe and Africa" of the private school company Gems Education. May also have benefited from unorthodox childhood role models. Her aunt was Vera Atkins, originally from Romania, who was a British intelligence officer in the second world war and allegedly the model for Miss Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Zenna's godmother, an old friend of her mother's, was Shirley Conran b.21 Sept 1932 a British novelist and journalist, author of Superwoman.
They were cousins Rudolf Vrba 1924-2006 #26950427 & #127714164
Vera became involved with a young British pilot, Dick Ketton-Cremer, #183194805 whom she had met in Egypt, and to whom she may have been briefly engaged. He was killed in action in the Battle of Crete on 23 May 1941.
Her memorial plaque, which is shared with her brother Guy, is in the northern wall at St Senara's churchyard in Zennor, Cornwall where her ashes were scattered. The inscription reads "Vera May Atkins, CBE Légion d'honneur Coix guerre [sic]". The stonemason misspelled Croix de Guerre"
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/virginia-hall
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Atkins
Vera Recruited Virginia Hall
born Wilfred /Wildfred Rosenberg later referred to as Guy Atkins
m. Phoebe Rosenberg-Atkins nee Atkins 1936-Aug 13 2009 Zennor Cornwall England, who took possession of Vera's papers upon her death
son of Max Rosenberg m. Zefra Hilde Atkins
brother of Vera May Atkins 1908-2000 #66041739 &
Ralph Rosenberg 1905 South Africa - 1964
His sister Vera
British officer served with F Section, Special Operations Executive at Headquarters, 64 Baker Street, London, GB, 1941-1945 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80009338 Oral History featuring Vera
BOOKS:
The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive by Marcus Binney 2002
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE By Sarah Helm 2005
Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson Feb 15 2006
Vera's family
Wilfred Rosenberg (later Guy Atkins), brother
Wilfred & Phoebe's daughter Zenna Atkins b.@1966 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/oct/26/zenna-atkins-gems-free-schools former chair of Ofsted, now appointed "chief executive, UK, Europe and Africa" of the private school company Gems Education. May also have benefited from unorthodox childhood role models. Her aunt was Vera Atkins, originally from Romania, who was a British intelligence officer in the second world war and allegedly the model for Miss Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Zenna's godmother, an old friend of her mother's, was Shirley Conran b.21 Sept 1932 a British novelist and journalist, author of Superwoman.
They were cousins Rudolf Vrba 1924-2006 #26950427 & #127714164
Vera became involved with a young British pilot, Dick Ketton-Cremer, #183194805 whom she had met in Egypt, and to whom she may have been briefly engaged. He was killed in action in the Battle of Crete on 23 May 1941.
Her memorial plaque, which is shared with her brother Guy, is in the northern wall at St Senara's churchyard in Zennor, Cornwall where her ashes were scattered. The inscription reads "Vera May Atkins, CBE Légion d'honneur Coix guerre [sic]". The stonemason misspelled Croix de Guerre"
https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/virginia-hall
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Atkins
Vera Recruited Virginia Hall
Inscription
Her memorial plaque, which is shared with her brother Guy, is in the northern wall at St Senara's churchyard in Zennor, Cornwall where her ashes were scattered. The inscription reads "Vera May Atkins, CBE Légion d'honneur Coix guerre [sic]". The stonemason misspelled Croix de Guerre"
Gravesite Details
Cremated: ashes scattered; memorial plaque on churchyard wall
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