The Silent Woman -- Mrs. Sansom, G.C, MBE, with Marianne, Lily and Francoise, photographed on holiday today, Tuesday. 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.