HEROINE OF THE WAR.
WORKED WITH NURSE CAVELL. LONDON, June 5. Alademoiselle Louise Thuliez, who cooperated with Nurse Cavell in Belgium during the war, has been discovered, living quietly as a school teacher, says the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Sketch.”
She hid British soldiers in the woods near Valenciennes, despite a German order to surrender them, then helped 250 over the border and was sentenced to death, but was reprieved after a fortnight’s suspense. Subsequently, Alademoiselle Thuliez spent three years in a prison . camp, until revolutionary German soldiers released her companion and herself. She was awarded three French decorations, including the equivalent of the Victoria Cross, though Great Britain contented itself with giving her the 0.8. E.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1931, Page 8
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118HEROINE OF THE WAR. Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1931, Page 8
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