Nancy Wake Biography

This past week we have been learning about Nancy Wake. We had to read a book about her and what she has done to be so inspirational to many. After that we had to write a biography ( the course of a person’s life ) about her explaining when she was born, what she did after the war and etc.

Here is my biography about her

Introduction – 

Nancy Wake was a journalist and nurse who joined the French Resistance during World War II. She was a hero, she learnt how to use secret codes through radios, learnt how to shoot guns, learnt survival skills and earned multiple medals.

 

Beginning ( Before War ) – 

Nancy Wakes story begins on 30th of August 1912, and lived in New Zealand Wellington, her mother being Ella Rosieur Wake and her dad being Charles Augustus Wake. When she was two her family left New Zealand to go to Australia Sydney in 1914 and in 1930 she ran away to Europe and in 1940 she joined the French Resistance to help many people. 

 

Middle ( During War ) – 

She started to be the number one target to get for the Nazis, but every time they end up losing her. So they called her the White Mouse since she always escapes. Nancy Wake also got a husband, Henri Fiocca but he ended up getting executed by the Nazis for not telling information about her.

 

Semi-Middle ( After War ) – 

After the war she was rewarded with a George Medal, the French Croix de Guerre, Companion of the Order of Australia, the US Medal for Freedom with Palm, French Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and the French Medaille de la Resistance and worked at intelligence department at the British Air Ministry, attached to embassies in Paris and Prague.

 

End – 

She sadly passed away at the age of ninety eight in Kingston Hospital because of a chest infection. The 7th of August 2011 was when she passed, she requested her ashes to be scattered at Montluçon in central France.

Here is a photo of her