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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.
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.
14 de mai. de 2020 · Learn about the life and achievements of Odette Hallowes, the most highly-decorated spy of the Second World War and the first woman to be awarded the George Cross in the UK. Hear her story from her granddaughter and the audio clips of her ordeal in Nazi prison.
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.
15 de jan. de 2019 · Odette was a courier for the SPINDLE circuit of Special Operations Executive (SOE), the secret sabotage outfit Winston Churchill had charged to “set Europe ablaze.”
Odette Sansom Hallowes (1912 – 1995) was born in Amiens, France, to a bank manager who left his job when World War I broke out to join an infantry regiment on the Western Front. A courageous and brave soldier, Odette’s father, Gaston Brailly, was promoted to sergeant, and earned the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire .
13 de abr. de 2019 · Learn about the life and exploits of Odette Sansom, the first woman to receive the UK's George Cross for courage under fire. She was a French-born British agent who helped the resistance in occupied France and fooled the Nazis with a fake marriage to Peter Churchill.
