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Nancy Wake
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 Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a postwar career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.
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culture · Courier and SOE operative (1912–2011) · journalist · partisan · SOE agent · spy · nurse · also Nancy Wake, Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, The White Mouse, Nancy Fiocca, Madame Fiocca, Wake
Born 30 August 1912 · Died 7 August 2011 · Q234134
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2026· 2 entries
“There was no point in keeping them. When I die, I”
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2020· 1 entry
Simon and Schuster published Ariel Lawhon's Code Name Helene, a fictionalisation of Wake's exploits
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2019· 1 entry
The book Liberation, a historical novel based on the events of Wake's wartime service, was released
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2011· 2 entries
Died 2011-08-07.
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German author Michael Jürgs wrote Codename Hélène: Churchills Geheimagentin Nancy Wake und ihr Kampf gegen die Gestapo in Frankreich (translated: Codename Hélène: Churchill's secret agent Nancy Wake and her fight against
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded RSA Badge in Gold (2006).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Wake chose to move to the Royal Star and Garter Home for Disabled Ex-Service Men and Women, in Richmond, London, where she remained until her death
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2002· 1 entry
Melissa Beowulf's portrait of Wake was a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
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2001· 2 entries
Wake left Australia for the last time and emigrated to London
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Australian author Peter FitzSimons wrote Nancy Wake, A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine (ISBN 0 7322 6919 9), a bestselling comprehensive biography of Wake
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Entitled Nancy Wake, which is based on the 1956 biography by Russell Braddon
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1985· 2 entries
Wake published her autobiography, The White Mouse
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“The autobiography of the woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse”
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1970).
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And was promoted to Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1988
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1957· 1 entry
After marrying an RAF officer, John Forward, in December of that year
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1956· 1 entry
Australian author Russell Braddon wrote Nancy Wake: The Story of a Very Brave Woman (ISBN 978-0-7524-5485-6)
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1947· 2 entries
Won Medal of Freedom (1947).
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Won Resistance Medal (1947).
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1945· 1 entry
Won George Medal (1945).
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1943· 1 entry
When the Germans became aware of her, she escaped to Spain and then went to the United Kingdom
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1940· 2 entries
Wake became a courier for the Pat O'Leary escape network led by Ian Garrow and, later, Albert Guérisse
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Joined the escape network of Captain Ian Garrow, which became the Pat O'Leary Line
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1937· 1 entry
Wake met wealthy French industrialist Henri Edmond Fiocca (1898–1943), whom she married on 30 November 1939
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1914· 1 entry
Her family moved to Australia and settled at North Sydney
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-08-30.
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