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Nancy Wake
Sign in to saveAlso known as Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, The White Mouse, Nancy Fiocca, Madame Fiocca
New Zealander and Australian war heroine
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Great World War II Stories
- Classic Stories of World War II
- The autobiography of the woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse
- La Gestapo m'appelait la souris blanche
- The White Mouse
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Nicknames
- Hélène (SOE), Andrée ( French Resistance /SOE Identity), White Mouse (Gestapo in France)
- Born
- ( 1912-08-30 ) 30 August 1912, Roseneath , Wellington , New Zealand
- Died
- 7 August 2011 (2011-08-07) (aged 98), London, England
- Allegiance
- France, United Kingdom
- Branch
- Special Operations Executive , First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
- Service years
- 1943–1945 (SOE)
- Rank
- Captain
- Unit
- Freelance
- Conflicts
- Second World War
- Awards
- Companion of the Order of Australia , George Medal , Officer of the Legion of Honour (France), Croix de guerre (France), Médaille de la Résistance (France), Medal of Freedom (United States), RSA Badge in Gold (New Zealand)
- Spouses
- Henri Fiocca (d. 1943), John Forward
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Augusta
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Roseneath
- Place of death
- Kingston upon Thames
- Political party
- Liberal Party of Australia
- Languages spoken
- French
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- Special Operations Executive
- Military rank
- captain
- Image
- Nancy Wake (1945).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1912-08-30
- date of death
- 2011-08-07
- pseudonym
- Andrée
- name in native language
- Nancy Grace Augusta Wake
- Commons category
- Nancy Wake
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), 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.
The official historian of the SOE, M. R. D. Foot, said that "her irrepressible, infectious, high spirits were a joy to everyone who worked with her." Many stories about her World War II activities come from her autobiography, The White Mouse, and are not verifiable from other sources.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nancy Wake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.