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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.
Mar 21, 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...
May 14, 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.
Odette Sansom, also known as Odette Hallowes, was a female spy who worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in occupied France during World War II. She was captured, tortured and sent to a concentration camp, but survived and received the George Cross for her courage and service.
Jan 15, 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.”
Mar 17, 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...
Odette Sansom was a French-born SOE agent who worked in France during the Second World War. She was captured, tortured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she saved many agents by refusing to betray them.
