Richard Barmé lived together with his parents and his sister Rita in the Nassaulaan 4 in Baarn. He was a student.
Under the pen-name of Edo he went to the resistance and became a member of the Knokploeg (strong-arm gang) Rotterdam.
Richard Barmé escaped from the Netherlands in 1942, and managed to reach Switzerland. He arrived in England at the beginning of 1944, having travelled through France and Spain. He was trained as a radio operator and then parachuted into the Netherlands as a secret agent. The Nazis traced his radio and took him prisoner in the Oranjehotel, Scheveningen. In reprisal for the attack on SS Captain Rauter, Richard Barmé was shot by a firing squad at the Waalsdorpervlakte.
By Royal Decree of 2 May 1953 Richard Barmé posthumous was honoured with the Cross of the Merit and the Bronze Lion. His name is on the official Erelijst (List of Honour) of resistance fighters NIOD, Erelijst Verzet en Koopvaardij, database vervaardigd door dhr J.W. de Leeuw
Richard Barmé was not married.
See also Dodenboeken van het Oranjehotel op de website van het Nationaal Archief.
For additional information see: Eddy de Roever Zij sprongen bij maanlicht. De geschiedenis van het bureau bijzondere opdrachten en de agenten Londen 1944-1945 (Baarn, 1985)