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Odette Sansom Hallowes
b. 28/04//1912 Amiens, France. d.
Biography odette hallowes
13/03/1995 Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
DATE AND PLACE OF GC ACTION: 04/1943 – 05/1945 France/Germany.
Odette Marie Céline Brailly (1912-1995) was born to French parents in Amiens on 28th April 1912, the first of three children of Gaston and Yvonne Marie Rose Brailly (nee Quennehen).
Her life was touched by war at an early age when her father Gaston was killed at Verdun, just a few weeks before the end of the First World War. She also suffered a string of serious illnesses, one of which left her blind for nearly two years, and another which left her bedridden for months.
Despite her fragile state her irrepressible, headstong nature could not be tamed by the sisters of her convent school at Amiens, and in 1926 she moved to Boulogne with her mother. There she met an English hotelier, Roy Sansom, whom she married in 1931.
After the birth of her first child, Françoise, they moved to London where she had two more daughters, Li