Odette Hallowes

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Odette Sansom Hallowes GC, MBE, Chevalier de la légion d''honneur (28 April 1912 - 13 March 1995) was an Allied heroine of World War II. Born as Odette Marie Céline Brailly in Amiens, France, she was the daughter of the First World War hero, Gaston Brailly, who was killed at Verdun in 1918. She met an 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. In the spring of 1942 the Admiralty appealed for postcards or family photographs taken on the Continent for possible war use. Hearing the broadcast, Odette wrote that she had photographs taken around Boulogne, on the French coast of the English Channel, but she inadvertently addressed her letter to the War Office instead of the Admiralty. As a result she was enrolled in Special Forces of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) and trained by Colonel Maurice Buckmaster''s Special Operations Executive to be sent into Nazi-occupied France to work with the French underground. She left her three daughters in a convent school.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786131339035
• ISBN-10: 6131339031
• Artikelnr.: 30034651