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6 de mar. de 2020 · 6 March 2020. Odette Hallowes was interviewed in 1992 about her time in captivity. World War Two's most highly decorated female spy has had a train named after her by Great Western Railway. Odette ...
Hallowes had already been awarded the Croix de Guerre for his “cloak and dagger” actions, while Odette had received the Légion d’Honneur and the MBE. A biographical film, Odette, starring Anna Neagle, was released in 1950 and the two women became firm friends. Odette died in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on March 13 1995, aged eighty-two.
IWM (Production company) Wood, Conrad (recorder) Hallowes, Odette Marie Céline (interviewee/speaker) Production date 1986-10-31 Dimensions. whole: Duration 73, Number Of Items 3. Catalogue number 9478
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. She was the first
Odette Sansom Hallowes, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Ravensbruck concentration camp. The 1950 film ‘Odette’ is based on her war exploits. Extensive training in resisting interrogation and how to evade capture underscored the gravity of their missions. Fear of the Gestapo was real and well-founded.
After Churchill divorced Odette in 1955 she married Geoffrey Hallowes, another member of SOE who had served in France. She took an active role in public life, supporting the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association, and became Vice‐President of the FANY in 1967 and later president of 282 (East Ham) Air Cadet Squadron.
20 de mar. de 1995 · LONDON -- Odette Hallowes, 82, a British agent tortured by the Gestapo in World War II and the first woman awarded Britain's George Cross, died March 13 at her home in Walton-on-Thames.
