Yvonne now a widow and with a daughter Yvette joined the WAAF as an administrator- she later joined the French Section of the Special Operations Executive.
She was described as being very intelligent and resourceful and a capable Agent and was trained as a wireless operator and a courier.
Yvonne was given a powder compact by Maurice Buckmaster (He always gave Agents a lucky gift before they went on a mission.)
Cormeau was sent to France - her job was wireless operator and courier for the Wheelwright network in Gascony.
Here - Yvonne sent over 400 messages to London (A record for F Section)
She arranged Arms Drops and supplies for Maquis Groups and also assisted in the..cutting of power and telephone lines which caused both isolation and disruption for the German Garrison Nr:Toulouse.
Famous Event: Yvonne was stopped at a German road block and questioned with a gun in her back and convinced the Germans her I.D was for a District Nurse and her radio..was an X-ray machine.
Yvonne worked for 13 months in enemy territory and she had some very narrow escapes.
After the war Yvonne worked as a translator for the Foriegn Office and she was re-united with her daughter Yvette and they lived in London and became a British citizen and promoted Anglo-French relations.
AWARDS:
MBE (British Government) Legion d'honneur. Croix de Guerre.
Medaille Combattant Volontaire de la Resistance.
He dress with bullet hole and a blood stained briefcase are exhibited with her WAAF Officers Uniform at the Imperial War Museum in London. More information can be found in the book: Moondrop To Gascony by Anne Marie Walters, who worked as the circuits courier.
In later years Yvonne married James Edgar Farrow, who pre-deceased her, they lived in Derbyshire. Her later years were spent at the Tall Pines Nursing Home, Fleet, Hampshire.
Yvonne now a widow and with a daughter Yvette joined the WAAF as an administrator- she later joined the French Section of the Special Operations Executive.
She was described as being very intelligent and resourceful and a capable Agent and was trained as a wireless operator and a courier.
Yvonne was given a powder compact by Maurice Buckmaster (He always gave Agents a lucky gift before they went on a mission.)
Cormeau was sent to France - her job was wireless operator and courier for the Wheelwright network in Gascony.
Here - Yvonne sent over 400 messages to London (A record for F Section)
She arranged Arms Drops and supplies for Maquis Groups and also assisted in the..cutting of power and telephone lines which caused both isolation and disruption for the German Garrison Nr:Toulouse.
Famous Event: Yvonne was stopped at a German road block and questioned with a gun in her back and convinced the Germans her I.D was for a District Nurse and her radio..was an X-ray machine.
Yvonne worked for 13 months in enemy territory and she had some very narrow escapes.
After the war Yvonne worked as a translator for the Foriegn Office and she was re-united with her daughter Yvette and they lived in London and became a British citizen and promoted Anglo-French relations.
AWARDS:
MBE (British Government) Legion d'honneur. Croix de Guerre.
Medaille Combattant Volontaire de la Resistance.
He dress with bullet hole and a blood stained briefcase are exhibited with her WAAF Officers Uniform at the Imperial War Museum in London. More information can be found in the book: Moondrop To Gascony by Anne Marie Walters, who worked as the circuits courier.
In later years Yvonne married James Edgar Farrow, who pre-deceased her, they lived in Derbyshire. Her later years were spent at the Tall Pines Nursing Home, Fleet, Hampshire.
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