"In 2014 at the age of 93 Phyllis Latour Doyle, ""Pippa"", received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, (the Legion of Honour, knight class) for activities in occupied France in World War II; where was she born, and where did she grow up?"
Phyllis Latour Phyllis Latour Phyllis "Pippa" Latour (born 8 April 1921) MBE, was a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. Latour's father, Philippe, was a French doctor and married to Louise, a British citizen living in South Africa, where Phyllis was born in 1921. Her father died three months later in French Equatorial Africa (AEF) and her mother remarried three years later. Her stepfather was a racing driver, and would let his new wife race his automobiles as well. During one such race, her mother's car malfunctioned and she was killed when the car crashed into a
Phyllis Latour tie up her hair. At one point, she was brought in for questioning, but the German authorities did not think to examine her hair tie, and she was released. After World War II, Latour married an engineer with the surname Doyle, and went to live in Kenya (East Africa), Fiji, and Australia. She now lives in Auckland, New Zealand. She did not discuss her wartime activities with her family until her children discovered them by reading about them on the Internet in 2000. Latour was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (Knight of the Legion of Honour), by