Étienne tragically never met his daughter, Tania, who Szabó (Légion d'Honneur, Médaille Militaire, Croix de Guerre with Star and Palm, Colonial Shortly after a visit to France, where she met the French Legionnaire officer Étienne The Women’s Land Army in 1940 and going from strawberry picking to working in an armaments Was 11. Violette left school at 14 and worked in department stores, until joining Of the George Cross for her ‘magnificent courage and steadfastness’.īorn Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell in a British hospital in Paris in 1921, to anĮnglish father and French mother, the family moved to Stockwell, London, when she Violette Szabó was an agent of the SOE during World War 2 and posthumous recipient
In 1942, Churchill approved women being sent to Europe as couriers and wireless operators,Īs they were thought to be less conspicuous to the Gestapo than men.ģ9 women of the SOE did extraordinary things in the course of duty, and three wereĪwarded the highest civilian gallantry honour, the George Cross. The Nazi-occupied country they were to be sent to. Recruits were toughened up with targeted training, and would have good knowledge of Oppressed countries who must themselves be the direct participants’. Government in 1940 to ‘coordinate, inspire, control and assist the nationals of the The secret organisation the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was formed by the British
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