The Silent Woman -- Mrs. Odette Marie Celina Sansom, G.C., M.B.E. photographed to-day, Tuesday, while on holiday in Hampshire. The award of the George Cross to a British woman who refused to betray her comrades under Nazi torture was announced to-day, Tuesday,. sent into occupied France, Mrs. Odette Marie Celina Sansom, MBE, was arrested by the Gestapo. The Germans needed information about two officers, but despite torture inflicted with a hot iron and the removal of all her toe nails, Mrs.Sansom kept silent. August 20, 1946.