HEROINES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE - ODETTE VICTORIA WILEN née SAR

 

Odette was born in England

And worked for the SOE

For the Stationer network

Her Codename was “Sophie”

And she was a Courier,

For the Labourer network

After other agents in the circuit

Were betrayed to the Germans

Wilen crossed the Pyrénées

On foot into Spain and onward

To England in August 1944

In Buenos Aires in 2015

Wilen died, at the age of 96