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Odette Marie Léonie Céline Brailly was born on 28 April 1912 at 208, rue des Corroyers in Amiens, France; [2] the daughter of Emma Rose Marie Yvonne née Quennehen [a] and Florentin Désiré Eugène 'Gaston' Brailly, [b] a bank manager, killed at Verdun shortly before the Armistice in 1918 and posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and Médaille militaire for heroism. [3]
Odette is a 1950 British war film based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French agent, Odette Sansom, living in England, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed.
Peter Morland Churchill, DSO Croix de Guerre (1909 – 1972) was a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer in France during the Second World War.His wartime operations, which resulted in his capture and imprisonment in German concentration camps and his subsequent marriage to fellow SOE officer Odette Sansom, received considerable attention after the war, including a 1950 film.
Odette, an Italian drama film based on the Sardou play; Odette, a British war film about Odette Sansom; Odette, heroine of Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake; Odette , an 1847 ballet by Jules Perrot; Odette, a character in Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, volume 1 of In Search of Lost Time
Odette Hallowes GC MBE LdH (28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995), also known as Odette Sansom and Odette Churchill, was a Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War. She was the first woman to be awarded the George Cross , the only woman to be both awarded the George Cross and appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur , and ...
The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
The Women of the Year Lunch was co-founded in 1955 by Tony Lothian, Georgina Coleridge (journalist and Marquess of Tweeddale), and Odette Hallowes (a British spy captured and tortured by the Nazis during World War II).
A series of novels about a female agent of the World War II British Special Operations Executive ("SOE") in Nazi-occupied France. Fullerton's protagonist, Rosie Ewing, may have been inspired by the real-life experiences of decorated SOE agent Odette Sansom Hallowes. [2] [circular reference] Into the Fire (1995) Return to the Field (1997)