Diana Hope Rowden (January 31st. 1915 - July 6th. 1944) was a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member who was put to death in a Nazi concentration camp. Born in England she moved with her family to southern France when she was still a young girl.  She attended schools in Saint-Remo and Cannes on the French Riviera, but her family soon returned to England settling at Hadlow Down.  She continued her education at Manor House School, Limpsfield. In 1933 she returned to France and enrolled at the Sorbonne, before finding employment as a journalist in Paris. When the Second World War began, she joined the French Red Cross being assigned to the Anglo-American Ambulance Corps. The Allied collapse in May 1940 prevented her evacuation from France and she remained there until the summer of 1941 when she escaped to England via Spain and Portugal. In September of 1941, she joined the Women's Auxillary Air Force, working at the Department of the Chief of Air Staff as Assistant Section Officer for Intelligence duties, before being posted to Moreton-in-the-Marsh, where she was promoted to Section Officer.  She first came to the attention of the Special Operations Executive when Harry Sporborg, a senior SOE staff member, saw her file and requested that she be appointed his secretary. Having already joined the WAAF, she began military training instead.  some months later she happened to meet Squadron Leader William Simpson, who worked part-time for SOE and with whom she discussed her desire to return to France and take part in resistance work. In early March 1943, she received an invitation to a preliminary interview with an officer of SOE F Section, and on 18th. March began her training. On June 16th. 1943 she was flown to a location north of Angers, in the Loire Valley, in occupied France with fellow agents Noor Inayat Khan and Cicely Lefort, where they were met by Henri Dericourt, the air movements officer for F Section.  From there she made her way to Saint-Amour where she was assigned to the Acrobat network led by John Starr. Her duties included acting as a courier, delivering messages to other agents and members of the underground in Marseille, Lyon and Paris.  She also helped Harry Rée plan the destruction of the Peugeot factory in Sochaux, where tank turrets and aircraft engine parts were made. A month after Rowden's arrival, network leader John Starr was arrested.  Rowden and wireless operator John Young took refuge with a french family at the village of Clairvaux-les-Lacs, near Lons-le-Saunier. In mid-November 1943, they were told by wireless from Baker Street to expect the arrival of a new agent.  On 18th. Noember the new arrival appeared, but turned out to be a false agent planted by the Germans.  Rowden and Young were arrested that evening and taken to Lons-le-Saunier. Next day, Rowden was taken to 84, Avenue Foch, the Paris headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst, where she was interrogated for two weeks before being sent to Fresnes prison. On the 13th. May 1944, Diana Rowden, along with arrested SOE agents Sonya Olschanezky, Andrée Borrel, Yolande Beekman, Vera Leigh, Eliane Plewman, Odette Sansom-Hallowes and Madeleine Damerment were moved to concentration camps in Germany. On 6th. July 1944, Rowden, Leigh, Borrel and Olschanezky were shipped to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace, where they are thought to have been injected with phenol and disposed of in the crematorium.  They were meant to disappear without a trace, but their arrival at the concentration camp was witnessed by captured SOE agent Brian Stonehouse and Albert Guérisse, a member of the Belgian resistance. Posthumously she was created an MBE and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.  her name is registered with the Scottish National War Memorial in Edingburgh Castle, at Runnymede Memorial in Surrey and on the 'Roll of Honour' on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département of France.  The concentration camp where she died is now a French government historical site: a plaque to Diana Rowden and the three women who died with her is part of the Deportation Memorial on the site.  In 1985, SOE agent and painter Brian Stonehouse, who saw Diana Rowden and the three other female SOE agents just before their deaths, painted a watercolour of the four women which now hangs in the Special Forces Club in London.

Brigadier-General Edmund William Costello VC CMG CVO Croix de Guerre (France) (August 7th. 1873 - June 7th. 1949) was born in Sheikhbudia, North West Frontier (now known as Punjab), India, and was the recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was 23 years old and a lieutenant in the 22nd Punjab Infantry, Indian Army during the Malakand Frontier War, when the following deed took place:
On 26th. July 1897 at Malakand on the Indian Frontier Lieutenant Costello went out from the hospital enclosure and with the assistance of two sepoys, brought in a wounded Lance-Havildar who was lying 60 yards away, in the open, on the football ground.  This ground was at the time over-run with swordsmen and swept by heavy fire from both the enemy and our own men who were holding the sapper lines.
Lieutenant Costello serve in the First World War and later achieved the rank of Brigadier-General.
His grave and memorial are in St. Mark's Churchyard, Hadlow Down, East Sussex, England.
His Victoria Cross is displayed in the National Army Museum, Chelsea, London.

Elsie Marian Henderson sculptor, painter, draughtsman and lithographer, chiefly of wild animals, was born on the 28th. May 1889 in Eastbourne.  Her mother was an amateur painter and encouraged her to draw.  She studied at the Slade School from 1903 to 1905 and later in Paris.  She travelled widely in Italy and Germany and in 1915 studied lithography under Ernest Jackson at the Chelsea Polytechnic .  She started her own press and became a member of the Senefelder Club, Women's International Art Club, Monarro Group and Society of Graver-Printers in Colour.  She specialised in capturing the power and majesty of the big cats. 
In 1917 she was producing posters for the London Underground group.  Her first exhibition of drawings, prints and sculpture was at the Leicester Galleries in 1924. She later had group exhibitions alongside Orivida Pissarro and Paul Nash.
In 1925 she married Baron de Coudenhove and lived in Guernsey until 1946 when she returned to England and settled in Hadlow Down where she continued to paint but made no more prints or sculpture.
She died in 1967.