#OnThisDay in 1913, Berthe Mayer was born. During the #SecondWorldWar, she worked as a radio operator for her husband Percy, an SOE agent on #Madagascar.
When the allies took the north of the island, Percy ended up behind Allied lines and Berthe behind French lines. Despite having small children and SOE and her husband telling her to stop, she kept transmitting intelligence on her radio. The French authorities knew a radio was transmitting somewhere and searched her house multiple times, but never found any evidence.
In November 1943, she received the MBE in recognition of her work.
