Phyllis Latour MBE, who holds British Army Parachute Wings, recently celebrated her 100th birthday in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the last survivor of the female agents recruited by the Special Operations Executive’s French Section during the Second World War. Some say there were thirty-nine female F Section agents. Others say there were more than fifty but some operatives were on secondment to SOE, like Latour during her first mission to France. Most of them were given commissions in the FANY in the hope of legitimising them in the eyes of their captors should they fall into... more»