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She died on 13 March 1995 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, aged 82. Post war. Sansom, known as Odette Churchill after her marriage, gained considerable fame after the publication of a 1949 biography and a film on her war work and prison ordeal in 1950.
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 family...
14 de may. de 2020 · Odette was born in Northern France in 1912, and was only six years old when her Father, Florentin Brailly, was killed fighting in the French town of Verdun shortly before the Armistice in 1918. Odette was a bright but sickly child, even from a young age her life was threatened when she contracted serious illnesses, including Polio, that blinded her for almost four years and left her bedridden ...
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 ...
For her service, she was awarded the George Cross. Her humility meant she was not keen on accepting the award, but she did accept it on behalf of all agents who suffered during the war. She briefly married, Peter Churchill, before marrying her third husband, Geoffrey Hallowes. She died in 1995 aged 83. Quote on Odette Sansom
15 de ene. de 2019 · Odette’s medals can be seen today in her special display at the Imperial War Museum. Odette, who by that time had married her third husband and become Odette Hallowes, died in 1995 at the age of...
Born Odette Marie Céline Brailly on April 28, 1912, in France; died in 1995 in England; daughter of Yvonne Brailly and Gaston Brailly (a bank official and soldier); married Roy Sansom, in 1930; married Captain Peter Morland Churchill, in 1947; married Geoffrey Hallowes; children: (first marriage) Françoise (b. 1932); Lily (b. 1934); Marianne (b.
