Nancy Wake
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Nancy Grace Augusta Wake,, also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Execut
Wake in 1945
The medals awarded to Wake for her World War II service on display at the Australian War Memorial
Émile Coulaudon
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Émile Coulaudon, known as Colonel Gaspard, was one of the principal leaders of the French Resistance in Auvergne during the Second World War.
Nancy Wake
…the Allier department of occupied France to liaise between the SOE and several Maquis groups in the Auvergne region, which were loosely overseen by Émile Coulaudon (code name "Gaspard"). She participated in a battle between the Maquis and a large German force in June 1944. In the aftermath of the battle, a defeat…
Memorial at the Mont Mouchet museum, France.
Order for mobilisation signed by Gaspard on 20 May 1944.
Coulaudon's army uniform, Museum of the Resistance, Mont Mouchet.