Roland Edouard Rieul (8 January 1906 – 17 May 1995) was a French soldier, a member of the 6th French Division, a prisoner of war, and then after his escape a secret agent for the British SIS. He wrote a memoir Escape Into Espionage: The True Story of a French Patriot.[1][2]

His memoirs were published in 1986 as Soldier into Spy: the memoirs of Roland Rieul (Kimber, ISBN 0718306139)[3] Rieul later lived on the Isle of Wight,[4] where he died in May 1995 at the age of 89.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ The Armchair Detective - Volume 23 - Page 108 Allen J. Hubin, Otto Penzler, Kathy B. Daniel - 1990 Escape into Espionage by Roland Rieul. New York: Avon, 1989. $4.50 When France fell to the German invaders in 1940, Roland Rieul was a sergeant in the field, trying to convince his men there was still hope.
  2. ↑ Nigel West A-Z of British Intelligence: Rieul, Roland
  3. ↑ "Soldier into Spy". Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Escape into espionage
  5. ↑ Ancestry: Roland Edouard Rieul in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
  6. ↑ THE LONDON GAZETTE, 19TH JUNE 1995


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