Odette Marie Céline Sansom, (née Brailly) GC, MBE, Chevalier de la légion d'honneur, was an Allied heroine of World War II. Odette Marie Céline Brailly was born in Amiens in the Somme département of France. Her father was the First World War hero Gaston Brailly who was killed at Verdun in 1918 when she was six-years-old. She met the Englishman Roy Sansom in Boulogne and married him in 1931, moving with him to England. The couple had three daughters - Françoise, Lily and Marianne.
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- Odette Marie Céline Sansom, (née Brailly) GC, MBE, Chevalier de la légion d'honneur, was an Allied heroine of World War II. Odette Marie Céline Brailly was born in Amiens in the Somme département of France. Her father was the First World War hero Gaston Brailly who was killed at Verdun in 1918 when she was six-years-old. She met the Englishman Roy Sansom in Boulogne and married him in 1931, moving with him to England. The couple had three daughters - Françoise, Lily and Marianne. Odette's husband enlisted in 1940. When the War Office requested all French-born residents of London to supply them with photographs of their home towns, Odette volunteered her family album, which contained many useful depictions of the Channel coast. She joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), and was later asked to train under Colonel Maurice Buckmaster of the Special Operations Executive and return to Nazi-occupied France to work with the French underground. She left her three daughters in the care of her husband. She made a landing near Cannes in 1942, where she made contact with her supervisor, Peter Churchill. Using the code name Lise, she brought him funds and acted as his courier. Churchill's operation in France was betrayed by a double agent, and Odette and Churchill were arrested on 16 April 1943 and imprisoned. Under torture by the Gestapo at Fresnes prison in Paris, Odette stuck to her cover story that Churchill was the nephew of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and that she was Peter's wife. The hope was that in this way their treatment would be mitigated. Odette was condemned to death in June 1943 and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. She survived the war and testified against the prison guards at a 1946 war crimes trial. Odette's husband had died during her imprisonment and she married Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. Her third husband was Geoffrey Hallowes. Odette was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and was the first of three World War II FANY members to be awarded the George Cross. She remains the only woman to have received the George Cross whilst alive, all other female GC awards to date being posthumous. She was also appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for her work with the French resistance. In later life Odette's house was burgled and her GC was stolen but after an appeal it was returned with a note saying 'You, madam, appear to be a dear old lady. I am not all that bad- it's just circumstances. Your little dog really loves me. I gave him a nice pat and left him a piece of meat. Sincerely yours, A Bad Egg.'
- Odette Sansom fut un agent franco-britannique du Special Operations Executive, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Sous le nom de guerre « Lise », elle fut courrier du réseau SPINDLE dirigé par Peter Churchill actif dans le midi de la France. Arrêtée par les Allemands et déportée à Ravensbrück, elle survécut.
- Odette Hallowes, född som Odette Marie Celine Brailly den 28 april 1912 i Amiens, Frankrike, död 13 mars 1995 i Walton-on-Thames, England, var en brittisk hemlig agent i Frankrike under andra världskriget. År 1931 gifte hon sig med en engelsman, flyttade till England och blev mor till tre döttrar. Under andra världskriget gick hon med i First Aid Nursing Yeomanry som sjukvårdare. Hon fick utbildning inom Special Operations Executive och skickades till Frankrike för att samarbeta med den franska underjordiska motståndsrörelsen. Hon ankom till Cannes 1942. Hon tillfångatogs av Gestapo, torterades i det ökända fängelset Fresnes i Paris, dömdes till döden och sändes vidare till koncentrationslägret Ravensbrück. Hon överlevde kriget och belönades 1946 med George Cross ("Georgskorset", en 1940 instiftad utmärkelse åt civilpersoner i England).
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- Odette Marie Céline Sansom, (née Brailly) GC, MBE, Chevalier de la légion d'honneur, was an Allied heroine of World War II. Odette Marie Céline Brailly was born in Amiens in the Somme département of France. Her father was the First World War hero Gaston Brailly who was killed at Verdun in 1918 when she was six-years-old. She met the Englishman Roy Sansom in Boulogne and married him in 1931, moving with him to England. The couple had three daughters - Françoise, Lily and Marianne.
- Odette Sansom fut un agent franco-britannique du Special Operations Executive, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Sous le nom de guerre « Lise », elle fut courrier du réseau SPINDLE dirigé par Peter Churchill actif dans le midi de la France. Arrêtée par les Allemands et déportée à Ravensbrück, elle survécut.
- Odette Hallowes, född som Odette Marie Celine Brailly den 28 april 1912 i Amiens, Frankrike, död 13 mars 1995 i Walton-on-Thames, England, var en brittisk hemlig agent i Frankrike under andra världskriget. År 1931 gifte hon sig med en engelsman, flyttade till England och blev mor till tre döttrar. Under andra världskriget gick hon med i First Aid Nursing Yeomanry som sjukvårdare.
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