Jack Agazarian

Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian (19 December 1916 – 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 Armenian 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...