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World War Two heroine 'Angel of Dieppe' dies at 103
Source: BBC
World War Two heroine 'Angel of Dieppe' dies at 103
20 April 2018
The "Angel of Dieppe" has died at age 103 - more than 75 years after she helped save the lives of many Canadian and British soldiers.
Sister Agnès-Marie Valois became a Canadian military legend for treating soldiers captured by German forces after the failed Dieppe landing.
She has received honours from both her native country of France and Canada.
More than 3,000 of about 6,000 Allied soldiers were captured or killed - the majority of them Canadian.
Sister Agnès was born in 1914 in Rouen Seine-Inferior, France and became an Augustinian nun at the convent of the Hôtel-Dieu in her hometown in the 1936. A trained nurse, she was one of about 10 Augustinian nurses who received the wounded and dead from the bloody battle of Dieppe.
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20 April 2018
The "Angel of Dieppe" has died at age 103 - more than 75 years after she helped save the lives of many Canadian and British soldiers.
Sister Agnès-Marie Valois became a Canadian military legend for treating soldiers captured by German forces after the failed Dieppe landing.
She has received honours from both her native country of France and Canada.
More than 3,000 of about 6,000 Allied soldiers were captured or killed - the majority of them Canadian.
Sister Agnès was born in 1914 in Rouen Seine-Inferior, France and became an Augustinian nun at the convent of the Hôtel-Dieu in her hometown in the 1936. A trained nurse, she was one of about 10 Augustinian nurses who received the wounded and dead from the bloody battle of Dieppe.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43844090
Sister Marie-Agnès Valois takes part in the 70th anniversary ceremony of the Dieppe Raid on 19 August 2012 in France
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