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Peter Morland Churchill, DSO (14 January 1909 – 1 May 1972) was a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer in France during the Second World War. His wartime operations, which resulted in his capture and imprisonment in German concentration camps , and his subsequent marriage to fellow SOE officer, Odette Sansom ...
2 de may. de 1972 · PARIS, May 1 —Peter Mor land Churchill, a British hero of the Resistance in France against German occupation in World War II, died today of cancer at Cannes. He was 63 years old.
Peter Churchill, the son of a consular officer, was born in Amsterdam on 14th January, 1909. He attended Cambridge University where he was an outstanding athlete and played for his country at hockey. During the Second World War he became an intelligence officer and eventually joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
18 de mar. de 2015 · After completing training, Odette (codename “Lise”) travelled in a small fishing boat to Cassis, where she met the local SOE organiser, Peter Churchill (code-name “Raoul”). Odette’s original mission was to cross Vichy France, joining a resistance group in Burgundy.
28 de sept. de 2023 · Peter Churchill, the broadcaster, journalist, author, and horseman, died on 7 September, aged 89. Mr Churchill was born in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, on 9 September 1933.
Nigel Perrin's profile of SOE agent Peter Churchill (1908-1972), organiser of the SPINDLE network in Nazi-occupied France.
Of Their Own Choice is a book written by Peter Churchill, DSO, Croix de Guerre, published in 1952. It was the first of three books describing his wartime experience in the French section of the Special Operations Executive in which he was infiltrated four times into occupied France and spent 225 days behind enemy lines before he was ...
