Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE CdeG, code names Odile and Marguerite, was a Mauritian agent in the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in France during World War II.
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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley in flight c. 1940
SOE Agents Memorial
Monument erected in memory of Andrée Borrel and Marie-Lise de Baissac in the town of Saint-Laurent-Nouan (Loir-et-Cher) at a place called Bois-Renard, place of their parachute drop on the night of 24 to 25 September 1942. Inaugurated on September 25, 2022. GPS coordinates: 47.664599,1.600769.Awards 3
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Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE CdeG, code names Odile and Marguerite, was a Mauritian agent in the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in France during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.
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