French Nurse Returns After Service Overseas
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. 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 for Health, Lieutenant Maadi Gobray returned by the Mooltan yesterday after three years of interesting;and at times dangerous, experiences as a nurse With the Free French forces. A French girl, she 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 to go from New Zealand to serve with the French forces, which she joined in Syria. Lieutenant landed in the south of France with a field hospital unit of the Ist French Army and then moved into Germany. She was stationed at Alsace for some time and it was, here that she earned the Croix de Guerre. With 20 other-nurses, she was among the first French women to cross the line, . .V .
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Northern Advocate, 21 December 1945, Page 4
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