SOE Walters, Anne-Marie

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Walters
  • FORENAME
Anne-Marie
  • UNIT
F Section SOE
  • RANK
Assistant Section Officer
  • NUMBER
9905
  • AWARD
Member of the Order of the British Empire,Croix de Guerre (Fr),Medaille de la Resistance Francaise (Fr)
  • PLACE
France 1944
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Women's Auxiliary Air Force
born 16.3.1923 Geneva,Switzerland
daughter of F.P. and Mrs Walters
father English,mother French
educated International Boarding School,Geneva
to London June 1940
joined WAAF 1941 as 2001920 ACW (clerk)
joined SOE 6.7.1943
codename Colette
Wheelwright Circuit (courier)
dropped into France 3/4.1.1944
commissioned while in the field May 1944
escaped over Pyrenees August 1944
resigned commission November 1944
married name Comert postwar
author "Moondrop to Gascony" (1946)
resided Spain and France postwar
also translator and editor
died 3.10.1998 France
 
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