Lise de baissac biography of william

Agent of the SOE

Lise Marie Jeanette de BaissacMBECdeG (11 May 1905 – 29 March 2004),^[1] 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.

Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac was born on in Mauritius, which made her a British subject.

Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac was born on in Mauritius, which made her a British subject.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Early life​​ The only daughter among three children, Lise de Baissac was born in British Mauritius.

Lise was born in Mauritius on May 11, During the Second World War, she joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE)" - IWM "Lise was.

Lise de Baissac was born on 11 May , in Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean.

De Baissac was one of the first SOE female agents to be parachuted into occupied France in September 1942. During her two missions to France she often worked with her brother Claude who headed the Scientist network of SOE.

The couple was most useful shortly before and after the D-Day invasion of France by the allies. The de Baissacs armed and organized French Resistance forces to hinder the German response to the invasion and to a