WOMAN'S WAR MEDAL.
QUAINT FRENCH CHARACTER. LONG LIFE AT MAN'S WORK. Australian ntid 25".Z.. Cable Association. (Kecd. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS. Feb. 21. Madame Marrant, aged 75, of Lille, w ho has just received the Government's medal for war services, has had an extraordinary career. Endowed with unusual strength, Madame Marrant worked from her earliest years at a variety of manual tasks. She has been in the habit of smoking a pipe since her girlhood, and a result is known throughout the district as "Marie la Pipe." ■The old woman has worn men's clothes throughout the whole of her life. She began working with her father, as a dock labourer at Dunkirk. Since then she has worked as a mortar-miser, a plasterer's labourer, a gardener, a coal porter, and a dust collector. Daring tbo German occupation of Lille Madame Marrant was arrested for concealing a French prisoner in her cottage. She escaped punishment by a *5%
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 9
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155WOMAN'S WAR MEDAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 9
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