Cornioley, Cecile Pearl Witherington, 1914-2008

Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley (24 June 1914 – 24 February 2008) was an agent in France for the United Kingdom's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. Witherington was born in Paris to British parents. She parachuted into France in September 1943 as a courier for the SOE Stationer Network and, in May 1944, became head of the SOE Wrestler Network in the Indre region in central France. She was the only woman to lead an SOE network and associated resistance groups, called maquis, in France.