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Odette Sansom GC, MBE (Amiens, 28 april 1912 – Walton-on-Thames, 13 maart 1995), ook bekend onder de namen Odette Churchill en Odette Hallowes, codenaam Lise, was een agent van de Britse geheime organisatie Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Frankrijk tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.Het doel van SOE was om spionage-, sabotage- en verkenningsmissies uit te voeren in bezet Europa in de ...
Ce jour-là Odette très digne se présente en uniforme de FANY, la George Cross épinglée sur sa poitrine. Elle sera également nommé Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. En 1947 elle épouse Peter Churchill, puis ils divorcent en 1956. La même année, elle se marie avec Geoffrey Hallowes qui meurt en 2006.
7 de may. de 2020 · Odette Hallowes, who lived near Wellington, Somerset, when she was recruited, was awarded the George Cross for her bravery . She was interrogated at least 14 times by the Gestapo, who tortured her ...
(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.
7 de oct. de 2015 · Others, such as Odette Hallowes, spoke out, or like both Hallowes and Violette Szabo who had been executed at Ravensbrück, had their stories retold in biographies and films. And so the myth-making began. All too often, female agents and other women in the resistance have been honoured more for their courage and great sacrifice, ...
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.
Odette Hallowes was an agent of the SOE during WW2, and remains the only living woman to have been awarded the George Cross, in recognition of her ‘bravery, endurance and self-sacrifice’. Odette Marie Céline Brailly was born in Amiens, France, in 1912. She suffered the tragic loss of her father at Verdun, and serious illness left Odette ...
