NURSE WITH FREE FRENCH
GIRL TRAINED AT DAMARU RECIPIENT OF MANY HONOURS (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Dec. 20. Wearing the Croix de Guerre awarded tor bravery under bombardment, General de Gualle’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 returned by the Mooltan to-day after three years’ interesting and at times dangerous experiences as a nurse with the Free, French forces.
A French girl, Lieutenant Gobray came to New Zealand from Tahiti to take her nursing training at the Oamaru Hospital. She enlisted for overseas service on completing her training, and was the only woman who went from New Zealand to serve with the French forces, which she joined in Syria. She landed in the south of France with a field hospital unit of the First French Army, and then moved into Germany. Lieutenant Gobray was stationed in 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 Rhine.
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Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 7
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182NURSE WITH FREE FRENCH Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 7
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