FRANCE Virot, Andree Marthe

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Virot ​

• FORENAME

Andree Marthe ​

• UNIT

Resistance (Brittany) ​

• RANK

Sous Officier ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Croix de Guerre avec palme,Medaille de la Resistance,Ordre de la Liberation,Medal of Freedom (US),Kings Commendation for Brave Conduct (GB) ​

• PLACE

France 1940-44 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 3.2.1905 Brittany​

owner of a beauty salon in Brest prewar​

Resistance 1940-44​

codenames Agent X and Agent Rose​

betrayed and fled to Paris 1943​

betrayed and arrested in Paris 1944​

Ravensbruck​

transferred to Buchenwald​

liberated April 1945​

postwar manager,La Caravelle (restaurant),Paris​

married John Peel (Englishman)​

moved to Long Ashton,Somerset​

died 5.3.2010 Long Ashton ​

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