Phyllis "Pippa" Latour MBE (8 April 1921 – 7 October 2023) was a South African-born agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organisation in France during World War II.

The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany.

SOE agents in France allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.

Latour's father, Philippe, was a French doctor and married to Louise, a British citizen living in South Africa, where Phyllis was born in April 1921.

[5] Latour moved to England in May 1939,[4] and joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in November 1941 (Service Number 718483) as a flight mechanic for airframes.

[9][10] Small of stature, Latour posed as a teenage girl whose family had moved to the region to escape the Allied bombing.

Calmly she closed up the wireless set, pretending it was a case she was packing, while telling them she had scarlet fever – which had been sweeping the area – and said she had to get out of the village.

[13] After World War II, Latour married an engineer with the surname Doyle, and went to live in Kenya,[14] Fiji, and Australia.

[17][18] In September 1945, Latour was appointed an additional Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services in France during the German occupation.