- SURNAME
Sansom
- FORENAME
Odette Marie Celine (nee Brailly)
- UNIT
F Section SOE
- RANK
Ensign
- NUMBER
- AWARD
George Cross,Member of the British Empire,Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur (France)
- PLACE
France 1942-43
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Women's Transport Service (F.A.N.Y.)
born 28.4.1912 Amiens,Somme,France
daughter of Gaston Brailly (KIA 1918)
educated Convent of Ste Therese,Amiens
husband of Roy Sansom,London (3 daughters) (married 1931)
husband died during war
joined SOE 1941 (approx)
codename Lise
Spindle Circuit (courier)
arrested April 1943
survived Ravensbruck (liberated May 1945)
awarded Croix de Guerre also in one account
married Peter Churchill 1947 (dissolved 1956)
married Geoffrey Hallowes 1956 (died 2006)
died 13.3.1995 Walton-on-Thames,Surrey
Burvale Cemetery,Hersham,Surrey
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