Saturday." She was released at Easter and her belongings given back to her, except for a ring. She returned to the prison the next day and the ring was returned to her "with apologies." The hunt for her child was long, but she finally found her in the convent and persuaded the nuns that she had been arrested unfairly and the child was returned to her. Found Herbert and her daughter, Claudine, moved to a country house near Poitiers. In September 1944, Claude and Lise de Baissac were back in France, now liberated from German control, as part of the Judex mission which aimed to locate lost and captured SOE agents and the French people who had helped them. SOE had lost all contact with Herbert. The de Baissac's traced Herbert from Bordeaux to Poitiers and found her and her daughter living in a farm house. They then returned to England with Herbert and Claudine. De Baissac married Herbert on 11 November 1944, but it was apparently a marriage only of propriety as the couple did not live together. Later life De Baissac and Herbert were divorced in 1960. Herbert bought a small house in Frant, Sussex and gave French lessons for a living. Her daughter Claudine immigrated to the United States and married an airline pilot. Herbert died with her daughter at her side on 23 January 1983 of pneumonia. Honours and awards Herbert was awarded the Croix de Guerre by France, but unlike many of her SOE colleagues, received no British award. References Bibliography Liane Jones, A Quiet Courage: Women Agents in the French Resistance, London, Transworld Publishers Ltd, 1990. Marucs Binney, The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. 1903 births 1983 deaths Female wartime spies Special Operations Executive personnel Women's Auxiliary Air Force airwomen Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers Deaths from pneumonia in England People from Frant British intelligence operatives World War II spies for the United Kingdom