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Sep 28, 2022 · Here are 10 facts about the fearless Nancy Wake: 1. She was born in New Zealand in 1912. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1912, Nancy Wake was the youngest of the six children of Charles and Ella Wake. The family was of distant Māori descent through Nancy’s great-grandmother Pourewa, who is thought to have been one of the first ever Māori ...
Dec 24, 2016 · Wake passed away at age 98, in 2011, at the Royal Star and Garter Home for Disabled Ex-Service Men and Women. Her ashes were scattered in central France, near Montlucon, where she lead attacks against German outposts. Nancy Wake, a top figure in the French Resistance, was the Gestapo's most wanted person of all, with a reward for her capture of ...
Nancy Wake and her then-husband had retired to Port Macquarie. I met her in curious circumstances. I was driving from Springbrook, in south-east Queensland, to Mangrove Mountain in southern New South Wales, a distance of 900 kms, and had stopped at a rundown lean-to along the Pacific Highway which served as a petrol station.
Wake, Nancy Grace Augusta. (1912 – 2011) Born30 August, 1912, Wellington New Zealand. Died7 August, 2011, London England. OccupationServicewoman. Download content. Summary. Nancy Wake, whom the Gestapo code-named “the White Mouse” was the Allies’ most decorated servicewoman of World War II.
Oct 1, 2011 · In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street.
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Books. Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person.
Aug 10, 2011 · Nancy Wake, 98, who died of an infection Sunday in London, was one of the most effective and cunning British agents in German-occupied France during World War II. A sultry glamour girl before the ...
