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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley CBE (June 24, 1914 - February 24, 2008) was a World War II SOE agent born in Paris to British parents. Pearl Witherington was born and raised in France but was a British subject. She was employed at the British embassy in Paris and engaged to Henri Cornioley (1910-1999) when the Germans invaded in May 1940. She escaped occupied France with her mother and three sisters in December 1940 and eventually arrived in London where she found work with the Air Ministry. Determined to fight back against the German occupation…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley CBE (June 24, 1914 - February 24, 2008) was a World War II SOE agent born in Paris to British parents. Pearl Witherington was born and raised in France but was a British subject. She was employed at the British embassy in Paris and engaged to Henri Cornioley (1910-1999) when the Germans invaded in May 1940. She escaped occupied France with her mother and three sisters in December 1940 and eventually arrived in London where she found work with the Air Ministry. Determined to fight back against the German occupation of France, she joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) on June 8, 1943. In training she emerged as the "best shot" the service had ever seen.