This memorial is on the Vera Atkins Memorial at the Allied Special Forces Memorial Grive, at the National memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Captain, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
Extract from Wikipedia
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC,
GM (30 August 1912 (in Wellington, New Zealand) – 7 August 2011) served as a British
Special Operations Executive agent during the later part of
World War II. She became a leading figure in the
maquis groups of the
French Resistance and was one of the most decorated servicewomen of the war by the
Allies. After the fall of France in 1940, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined the escape network of Captain
Ian Garrow. By 1943, Wake was the
Gestapo's most wanted person, with a 5-million-
franc price on her head.
After reaching
Britain, Wake joined the
Special Operations Executive. On the night of 29–30 April 1944, Wake was parachuted into occupied France
Auvergne, becoming a liaison between London and the local maquis group headed by Captain Henri Tardivat in the
Forest of Tronçais. From April 1944 until the liberation of France, her 7,000+
maquisards fought 22,000 German soldiers, causing 1,400 casualties, while suffering only 100 among themselves
born Aug. 30, 1912, in Wellington, New Zealand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Wake
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obi...ial-forces-obituaries/8689765/Nancy-Wake.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SOEwake.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/world/europe/14wake.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/08/nancy-wake-obituary
