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Yvonne was sent to Ravensbrück in 1944

On June 25, 1944, 432 containers of supplies, arms and equipment were parachuted from 36 Flying Fortresses near Dole, in south-east France.

The operation was vital to the resistance movement and it had been organised by a 22-year-old Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent on her first mission in occupied territory.

Yvonne Baseden was born in Paris to an English airman and French nurse and arrived in London in 1938, aged 16.

Two years later she volunteered to join General de Gaulle’s Free French Forces but was rejected, “As mademoiselle was born of an English father”.

Undeterred she instead joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, where her skill with a radio and fluency in French was soon spotted by a recruiting officer for the SOE.

In 1943 she became the SOE’s youngest female agent.

She was assigned the codename Odette and paired with a French aristocrat, Gonzague de Saint-Geniès.

Their mission was to re-establish a resistance network around Dole after the previous one had been compromised by the Nazis. In 1943 Yvonne Baseden became the SOE’s youngest female agent

On March 17, 1944, Yvonne was parachuted into France where she and De Saint-Geniès established a new network, recruiting and training operatives and marshalling air drops via her radio to London.

By the time of their most successful operation in June they had more than 800 French men and women on the ground.

The next day, while celebrating at a cheese factory, they were discovered by a German patrol.

De Saint-Geniès was shot and Yvonne was arrested.

She was interrogated and sent to Ravensbrück but despite torture and illness refused to reveal the names of any operatives.

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The infamous German inscription reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp.

She finally escaped in April 1945 on a Red Cross train to Sweden and the following year was appointed MBE and awarded a Croix de Guerre.

In 1948 she married Desmond Bailey of the Colonial Service and moved to Rhodesia.

After his death in 1966 she remarried, moving to Portugal with her new husband Anthony Burney.

Following his death in 1999 she returned to London.

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