Bidspirit auction | WW2 SOE Colonel Maurice Buckmaster.

WW2 SOE Colonel Maurice Buckmaster. Odette Hallowes GC Signed RAF Cover. Limited edition 20 of 50 issued. Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster OBE (11 January 1902 17 April 1992) was the leader of the French section of Special Operations Executive and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Apart from his war service, Buckmaster was a corporate manager with the French branch of the Ford Motor Company. Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes, GC, MBE, also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Sansom, code named Lise, was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive in France during the Second World War. In the postwar years serving in Dagenham. He wrote two memoirs about his service with the Resistance during World War II.