VIC:Wake was exceptionally courageous =2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2011
VIC:Wake was exceptionally courageous =2

New Zealand's Veterans Affairs Minister Judith Collins said Ms Wake was an inspirational
and courageous woman.

"Nancy Wake was a woman of exceptional courage and tenacity, who cast aside all regard
for her own safety and put the cause of freedom first," Ms Collins said.

Ms Collins said Ms Wake would have known that her chances of survival were remote when
she chose to return to France during the war as a resistance leader.

"Her work setting up vital escape routes while being hunted by the Gestapo helped save
the lives of thousands of Allied servicemen," she said.

Ms Wake was born in the New Zealand capital Wellington in 1912 but grew up in Sydney
after her family moved to Australia when she was a year old.

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