HEROINES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE - ALIX MARRIER D'UNIENVILLE MBE, LdH, CdG

  

D'Unienville was born in Mauritius

But moved to France as a child

Following the surrender to Germany

She escaped to England in 1940

And began writing propaganda leaflets

At the Free French headquarters

Until she was recruited by the SOE

Codenamed “Myrtil” and “Marie”

she parachuted into Loir-et-Cher

On 31 March 1944, from a Halifax

with millions of francs in funding

Adopting the alias Aline Bavelan

She was working in Paris

And was very great successful 

until D-day when she was arrested

and taken to Avenue Foch for interrogation

After stays in several  Nazi prisons

But she escaped in transit to Germany

After the war she was awarded an MBE

the Legion d'honneur and Croix de Guerre