WITH THREE FRENCH DECORATIONS
NURSE RETURNS TO N.Z. SERVED WITH RESSTANCE FORCES (P.A.) Wellington, Dec. 20 Wearing the Croix de Guerre awarded for bravery under bombarament, General de Gaulle's Medai 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, she came to New Zealand from Tahiti to take her nursing training at 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 sne joined in Syria. She landed in the south of France with a field ho.pital 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 award. With 20 other nuises she was among the first French women to cros lhe line.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 301, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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180WITH THREE FRENCH DECORATIONS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 301, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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