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21 de mar. de 1995 · Odette Hallowes, a British agent tortured by the Gestapo in World War II and the first woman awarded the George Cross, died at her home in Walton-on-Thames on March 13. She was 82. Her...
17 de mar. de 1995 · Odette Hallowes became a national heroine for her work with French wartime Resistance, and for standing up to torture by the Gestapo. She was born Odette Brailly, in 1912 in Amiens, where her...
Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes, GC, MBE (née Brailly; 28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995), also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Sansom, code named Lise, was an agent for the United Kingdom 's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during the Second World War.
18 de mar. de 1995 · Odette Hallowes, a British agent tortured by the Gestapo in World War II and the first woman awarded the George Cross, has died at 82.
Odette Sansom Hallowes (1912 – 1995) was born in Amiens, France, to a bank manager who left his job when World War I broke out to join an infantry regiment on the Western Front. A courageous and brave soldier, Odette’s father, Gaston Brailly, was promoted to sergeant, and earned the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire .
6 de mar. de 2020 · Odette Hallowes, who was living in Somerset when she joined up, was tortured repeatedly by the Nazis. In a 1992 BBC interview, she recalled some of the experiences she went through.
7 de may. de 2020 · Odette Hallowes, who was held by the Gestapo, said memories of Somerset helped her survive.
