HEROINES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE - YVONNE JEANNE DE VIBRAYE BASEDEN MBE, CdeG, LdH, MdlR

 

Yvonne was French born

But served as an agent for the SOE

She was Codenamed “Odette”

And was parachuted into France

On 16th March 1944,

And operated as Radio Operator

For the Scholar network

Until her capture on the 26th of June

She was taken to Gestapo Headquarters

In Dijon and kept in solitary confinement.

In August she went to Saarbrücken prison

Then onto Ravensbrück concentration camp

She was one of around 500 women to survive

After the war she was awarded an MBE

A French Croix de Guerre with palm,

A Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur

And the Médaille de la Résistance

She died in October 2017 at the age of 95