A WORLD War Two heroine who served in Sir Winston Churchill’s secret army has died aged 102. Phyllis Latour was the last survivor of the French section of the Special Operations Executive (SO…
Phyllis Latour was the last survivor of the French section of the Special Operations Executive which was ordered by Churchill to “SetPhyllis, whose codename was Genevieve among many others, was one of 39 female agents who risked their lives as a spy behind enemy lines.
After a close family friend – her godmother's father who she viewed as her grandfather – had been shot by the Nazis, she was eager to support the war effort however she could.In addition to learning about encryption and surveillance, trainees also had to pass gruelling physical tests and even learnt about accessing buildings from a cat burglar.
The messages being sent by Genevieve were vital intelligence from inside enemy territory, but they came with several close shaves. After she married, she became known as Pippa Doyle, moved to New Zealand, and rarely spoke about her wartime career.News magazine in 2009: " didn’t have good memories of the war, so I didn’t bother telling anyone what I did.
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