Pearl Witherington
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 16 years ago |
Date of birth | June 24,1914 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | France |
Date of died | February 24,2008 |
Died | Loire Valley |
France | |
Other name | Agent Wrestler, Marie, Pauline |
Service/branches | Special Operations Executive |
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry | |
Books | Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent |
Awards | Order of the British Empire |
Legion of Honour | |
Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 | |
Resistance Medal | |
Unit | Stationer, Wrestler |
Nicknam | Marie, Pauline |
Year of servic | 1940–1944 |
Battleswar | Second World War |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1375445 |
Pearl Witherington Life story
Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley, CBE, code names Marie and Pauline, was an agent in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers.