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  Odette Sansom
Odette Marie Celine Brailly was born in Amiens, and married the English subject Roy Sansom in 1931, moving with him to England.
Under torture 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.
Odette was condemned to death in June 1943 and sent to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp[?].
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 Odette Sansom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Odette Marie Celine Brailly was born in Amiens in the Somme département of France.
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.
Odette was appointed an MBE and was the first of three World War II FANY members to be awarded the George Cross (gazetted 20th August, 1946).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Odette_Sansom   (384 words)

  
 The Hallowes Genealogy
She was born Odette Marie Celine Brailly in Picardy, the daughter of Gaston Brailly who was killed towards the end of the First World War.
Odette was sent to Paris where, at the notorious Fresnes prison, she endured excruciating torments, including having her toenails pulled out (for a year after her homecoming she could not wear shoes and had to walk on her heels until several operations restored her to normal mobility).
In June 1943 Odette was condemned to death and eventually sent to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, north of Berlin.
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 Odette Sansom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Odette Sansom (April 28 1912 - March 13 1995) was an Allied hero of World War II Odette Marie Celine Brailly was born in Amiens in the Somme département of France.
Churchill's operation in France was betrayed by double agent and Odette and Churchill were Under torture by the Gestapo at Fresnes prison in Paris Odette stuck to her cover story Churchill was the nephew of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and that she was Peter's wife.
Odette was condemned to death in June and sent to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.
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 Odette Hallowes
In 1956, that marriage was dissolved and she married Geoffrey Hallowes, a wine importer, who had also served in another section with the SOE in France.
Odette was active in many organisations: she was on the committee of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association; she was a vice-president of the FANY; an honorary member of the St Dunstan's Ex-Prisoners of War Association and Founder Vice-President of Women of the Year Luncheon.
Odette was a calm, thoughtful, lovely and generous person who never sought publicity; her faith and courage should never be forgotten by anybody in this generation or future generations.
www.282squadron.org.uk /odette_hallowes.htm   (1691 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | War heroine Odette was deemed 'too temperamental' for spying   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Odette Hallowes, the British spy awarded the George Cross for her work behind enemy lines in the Second World War, was considered too temperamental and stubborn for espionage duties, according to newly declassified government papers.
Hallowes was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 after she and her unit commander, Capt Peter Churchill, were betrayed by locals.
Hallowes was handed over to the Americans in 1945 by a German officer seeking favour from the Allies.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/11/nodet11.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/05/11/ixhome.html   (810 words)

  
 Odette's Story
Odette was built on the 21st of February, 1973 and to the best of my knowledge was originally registered in Paris - the original French registration number, ending in department code 75, is etched into the windows.
Odette is a late model - the last DSs were built in 1975 - and was the top of the range.
Odette Hallowes was a frenchwoman living in England when the war started.
www.diversity.org.uk /people/nigel/odette/story.html   (783 words)

  
 Peter Churchill
Odette Sansom was recruited as the group's radio operator.
Odette Sansom succeeded in convincing her interrogators that it was she and not Churchill who made the decisions and, as the citation for the George Cross which she was awarded stated, that it was she and not Churchill who should be shot.
Of all the women who took part in special operations in France, Odette - as she was universally known in spite of having borne three married surnames in her lifetime - perhaps best symbolized the indomitable spirit of resistance to Nazism.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWchurchillP.htm   (1053 words)

  
 Children of Freedom (Song for Odette) CD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Mrs Hallowes (formerly Odette Churchill) was describing her wartime experiences with a mixture of bravery, love and such matter-of-fact humility as to render me speechless with wonder.
The media reported lasciviously on the demise of the gangster; Odette received a passing mention in the 'And finally...' section of the TV news bulletins.
She chose to have her entry in Who's Who listed as 'Odette Hallowes, housewife' and it is to this sentiment and to the memory of a loving mother that I dedicate the writing of this song with heartfelt thanks, respect and humility.
www.heartland.co.uk /odette.html   (450 words)

  
 News | Selected agents
Odette Hallowes (also known as Sansom) was the radio operator for Peter Churchill's Spindle network.
The file details Hallowes' service record, including reports on her behaviour and treatment in prison and a complete breakdown of her activities while in action.
Hallowes spent two years in prison and was tortured regularly.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /releases/2003/may12/selectedagents.htm   (2407 words)

  
 Anna Neagle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She had a long career on the English stage and screen, ranging from a role in the chorus of Charlot's revue in 1925 to Charlie Girl in 1965 and My Fair Lady in 1979.
In British films, she played everything from Queen Victoria to war heroine, Odette Hallowes.
Virtually all of her films were directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox, who became her husband in 1943.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_Neagle   (215 words)

  
 → ODETTE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Odette's music is a carefully crafted blend of soulful narrative set against a backdrop of folk/pop rhythms.
Odette Odette standards have been developed by Odette International (see www.Odette.org), initially on behalf of the Automotive Industry.
ODETTE was set up as a centralised organisation to co-ordinate the development of EDI standards in the...
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 Agent GC Recipients
Odette Marie Céline Sansom (later Churchill, then Hallowes) was born on 28 April 1912.
Odette returned to England in 1945, although her health had been badly affected by her period of imprisonment and torture.
Odette Hallowes died on 13 March 1995 at her Walton-on-Thames home aged 82.
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 Odette (1950)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Trivia: Anna Neagle spent a year with Odette Hallowes visiting the various prisons and camps where Odette was held and being introduced to other surviving SOE agents.
Odette said of her, "She was absolutely into it.
In fact it took one year after the end of the film to get back to normal, she was more upset by doing that film than I was reliving the experience." (more)
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 Special Operations Executive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Odette: The story of a British agent (1949), tells the story of Odette Sansom-Hallowes.
Odette (1950) is based on the book starring Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard.
The Powell and Pressburger film Ill Met by Moonlight (released as Night Ambush in the States), based on the book, was made in 1957, starring Dirk Bogarde and Marius Goring.
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 Charlotte Gray: The Time: Real Charlottes: Odette Hallowes
ODETTE HALLOWES, G.C. “They are all our mothers and sisters, you would not be able to either learn or play in freedom today, yes, you may not even have been born, if such women had not stood their soft, slender bodies before you and your future like protective steel shields throughout the Fascist terrors.”
Read about Odette Hallowes G.C., the war heroine whose dramatic and harrowing deeds of espionage and courage assisted the Resistence in France.
We’ve found a few rare photos of the courageous real Charlotte, Odette Hallowes and put them together in a small gallery for you.
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 Wikipedia: Special Operations Executive
The film "Night Ambush", based on the book, was made in 1957, starring Dirk Bogarde and Marius Goring.
Jerrard Tickell wrote the book "Odette: The story of a British agent" in 1949, telling the story of Odette Sansom-Hallowes.
The film "Odette", based on the book, was made in 1950, starring Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/s/sp/special_operations_executive.html   (843 words)

  
 The Ultimate Diana Rowden Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Next day Rowden was taken to 84 Avenue Foch, the Paris headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst where she was interrogated for two weeks before being sent to Fresnes prison.
On May 13, 1944 Diana Rowden, along with arrested SOE agents Sonya Olschanezky, Andrée Borrel, Yolande Beekman, Vera Leigh, Eliane Plewman, Odette Sansom-Hallowes and Madeleine Damerment were moved to concentration camps in Germany.
On July 6, 1944, Rowden, Leigh, Borrel and Olschanezky were shipped to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace (France) where they were injected with phenol and disposed of in the crematorium.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Diana_Rowden   (767 words)

  
 Daughters of Yael - Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE
The plaque was unveiled by former agents Odette Hallowes-Sansom, GC, MBE; Eileen Nearne MBE; and Yvonne Baseden MBE.
Present were Vera Atkins, Francis Cammaerts DSO (senior SOE officer in France), Brian Stonehouse, Leo Marks (SOE Chef de Codage) with representatives from the FANY (WTS), WAAF (WRAF), the sister of Lillian Rolfe, the daughter of Violette Szabo, Judge John de Cunha (a prosecutor at Nuremburg) and several former members of the French Resistance.
She was Squadron and Intelligence Officer to SOE F Section and Personal Assistant to Buckmaster and had known all the agents over the war years who had passed through the SOE offices in London.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/ww2/sugar2.html   (8197 words)

  
 The Real Charlotte Grays - The 'real Chalotte Grays' - Odette Sansom Hallowes GC
Odette had three small daughters when she left England to work with Peter Churchill in the south of France, setting up local networks of the resistance.
From her cell she heard the executions of most of her fellow resistance members but she survived to collect her George Cross and to marry Peter Churchill.
She says: 'I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst.'
www.channel4.com /history/microsites/C/charlotte_gray/real_odette.html   (93 words)

  
 HALL OF FAME: Fifty years of winners Independent on Sunday, The - Find Articles
The guests included Odette Hallowes, a spy for the Special Operations Executive who had been awarded the George Cross.
Ms Hallowes famously declared: 'They are all our mothers and sisters.
You would not be able to either learn or play in freedom today, yes, you may not even have been born, if such women had not stood their soft, slender bodies before you and your future like protective steel shields throughout the fascist terrors.'
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20051030/ai_n15816722   (201 words)

  
 Second World War archives: Revealed: the secret female army who spied Independent on Sunday, The - Find Articles
Women such as Yolande Beekman, the Hampstead-educated bride of a Dutchman parachuted into France and whose story is told in File HS9/ 114/2.
Women such as Odette Hallowes, File HS9/648/4, a London mother whose work with the French resistance ended with her capture by the Gestapo.
And women such as Noor Inayat Khan, an Indian princess whose "clumsiness" and "timidity" in training did not stop her being one of the first female agents sent to France.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030511/ai_n12739402   (476 words)

  
 CHRISTOPHER A LONG - Notes & Extracts on Clandestine Operations 1939-45.
Of all the women who took part in special operations in France, Odette – as she was universally known in spite of having borne three married surnames in her lifetime – perhaps best symbolised the indomitable spirit of resistance to Nazism.
Fame came to her – notably, through the film Odette which celebrated her life – but she never sought it.
In 1956 that marriage was dissolved and she married Geoffrey Hallowes, a wine importer, who had also served – in another section – with the SOE in France.
www.christopherlong.co.uk /pub/clandestine.html   (12855 words)

  
 The Tartan Pimpernel - CASKIE (D.C):   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Ejected from his position as Minister of the Scottish Kirk in Paris, he relocated to Marseilles where he turned the British Seamen's Mission into a vital link in the chain for escaping POWs and soldiers returning from Dunkirk.
He was eventually denounced (by a British traitor), captured and passed through seven prisons including the infamous 'Villa Lynwood' in Nice where was held at the same time as Odette Hallowes.
He was sentenced to death by the Gestapo but saved from execution by a German padre.
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 Decades History Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Gladys L. Presley, mother of Elvis Presley, was born.
Odette Hallowes, British secret agent in France, was born.
He was later captured and tortured by the Gestapo.
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 Absinthe & Cookies (a bit bitter, a bit sweet): The Life That I Have   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
After torture and interrogation in which she gave nothing away, she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was eventually shot through the back of the neck with two other women SOE agents, Lillian Rolfe and Denise Bloch.
Another French section agent, Odette Hallowes, was in the camp with them and gave details to the authorities at the close of the war.
There is an anonymous memorial on the wall of a chapel in Kensington to six women of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, the cover used by SOE for female agents.
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 Biography of Odette,
French wartime resistance heroine, born in Amiens, N France.
Arrested by the Germans in 1943, she was tortured by the Gestapo in Paris, and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Awarded the George Cross in 1946, her wartime exploits were retold in a successful film, Odette (1950), starring Anna Neagle, which made her and her then husband, Peter Churchill, national figures.
www.allbiographies.com /biography-Odette-36807.html   (162 words)

  
 Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan
One of only three wartime women to be awarded the George Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry away from the field of battle, Noor is the least known.
Her fellow Resistance workers have been commemorated in feature films: Odette Hallowes was played by Anna Neagle in Odette and Violette Szabo by Virginia McKenna in Carve Her Name With Pride.
There have been books about Noor, but new light will be shed on her short yet remarkable life in a Timewatch documentary to be shown on BBC Two next Friday.
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 Yvonne Cormeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
YVONNE Cormeau, who has died aged 88, carried out secret operations in Occupied France under the codename Annette and evaded arrest despite some narrow escapes.
Yvonne Cormeau might not have been as well known as contemporaries such as Odette Hallowes or Violette Szabo, but her work for Special Operations Executive (SOE) was no less vital.
As an F Section wireless operator, she provided SOE and the French Resistance with a run of 13 months' essential communications.
users.tpg.com.au /berniezz/yvonne_cormeau.htm   (640 words)

  
 Chime PLC - press releases & announcements
Celebrating its 51st year in 2006, the Women of the Year Lunch is one of the most significant gatherings of women in the world bringing together 450 extraordinary individuals across 40 professions, from agriculture and the arts through to the media and medicine.
The lunch was founded in 1955 by campaigner and journalist, Lady Tony Lothian, who enrolled two friends as co-founders, war heroine Odette Hallowes GC and journalist Lady Georgina Coleridge, the aim being to honour women achievers from all walks of life and to hear views of world-famous women on important issues.
Over the years, many of the lunch’s speakers raised global issues long before they were aired in the international arena.
www.chime.plc.uk /news_room/news_room_index.asp?TYPES=2&rel=335   (421 words)

  
 Letter appealing for donations to Ross McWhirter Foundation | Margaret Thatcher Foundation
The others were Odette Hallowes, Rhodes Boyson, George Styles, Basil Place, Harold Abrahams, Michael Hooker, Anthony Berry, Ralph Harris and Norris McWhirter.
Cheques, large and small, should be made payable to the Ross McWhirter Foundation.
Yours faithfully, Boyd, Odette Hallowes, Rhodes Boyson, George Styles, Basil Place, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Hooker, Anthony Berry, Ralph Harris, Norris McWhirter, As from: House of Lords.
www.margaretthatcher.org /speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=102468   (312 words)

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