WITH FREE FRENCH
N.Z. TRAINED NURSE
Wearing the Croix de Guerre awarded for bravery under bombardment, General de Gaulle's Medal of Resistance, created in 1940, and the Medal of Honour awarded for special services to the French Ministry of Health, Lieutenant Maadi Gobray, who returned today after three years' interesting and at times dangerous experiences as a nurse with the Free French Forces, was an arresting figure in her gold-piped navy uniform and forage cap, scarlet shoulder tabs, decorations, and the insignia of the Fighting French.
This petite, black-haired French girl came to New Zealand from Tahiti to take her nursing training at Oamar.u Hospital. She enlisted for overseas service on completing her training, and was the only woman to go from New Zealand to serve with the French Forces, which she joined in Syria. She landed in the south of France with the field hospital of the Ist French Army, then moved on into Germany. She was stationed at Alsace for some time, and it was here that she earned the Croix de Guerre award. With 20 other nurses she was among the first Frenchwomen to cross the line.
Lieutenant Gobray will spend part of her three months' leave with friends in Wellington, and later hopes to return to Tahiti.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 8
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211WITH FREE FRENCH Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 8
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