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Odette Hallowes was awarded the George Cross, an MBE and the French Légion d'honneur and was the subject of a 1950 film starring Anna Neagle. A petition has been set up to have a road named after ...
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.
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
Nacida como Odette Marie Céline Brailly en Amiens (Francia) en 1912, se quedó huérfana de padre durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuando tenía 6 años. Los dos años siguientes serían sus peores a causa de una poliomielitis que la dejó ciega y sin movilidad en sus extremidades inferiores. Pero se sobrepuso a la enfermedad, recuperando la visión y movilidad, lo que le permitió llevar ...
Odette Hallowes. Odette Sansom Hallowes GC, MBE (28 de abril de 1912 – 13 de março de 1995 [ 1] ), também conhecida como Odette Sansom e como Odette Churchill, foi uma oficial de inteligência dos Aliados durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Suas façanhas bélicas e a resistência de um interrogatório brutal, que foram narrados nos livros e ...
(4) Odette Hallowes, The Times (17th March, 1975) Of all the women who took part in special operations in France, Odette - as she was universally known in spite of having borne three married surnames in her lifetime - perhaps best symbolized the indomitable spirit of resistance to Nazism.
