AN Islander’s heroic life as a wartime spy spent evading German soldiers to deliver secret messages has been told for the first time.

Phyllis Martin Woodgate (née Pattimore) was born in Jersey but spent the Second World War parachuting in behind enemy lines to deliver Churchill’s crucial messages to the French Resistance.

Her induction into the war ministry’s Special Operations Executive department and subsequent missions to German-occupied France were kept secret for years.
But now, for the first time, the daring tale of a young Jersey secretary who found herself dodging German Soldiers in a foreign land has been uncovered.

• See Monday’s Jersey Evening Post for the full story