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| Andrée Peel - War heroine. |
- Born Andrée Marthe Viro on February 3rd 1905.
- Died March 5th 2010.
- Known as Agent Rose (A title she shared with Eileen Nearne.)
- She worked against German Occupation in France.
- Member of French resistance during World War II.
- When World War II broke out, she was running a beauty salon in the Breton port of Brest, France.
- After the German invasion, she joined the French resistance and was involved in distributing secret French newspapers.
- She was later appointed head of an under-section of the resistance.
- She and her team used torches to guide allied planes to improvised landing strips and helped airmen who had landed in France to escape onto submarines and gunboats.
- She saved the lives of more than one hundred soldiers and airmen, and aided more than 20,000 people.
- She was arrested in Paris in 1944 and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
- She was later transferred to the concentration camp at Buchenwald before her eventual release.
- She also survived meningitis.
- After the war, she met her future husband, an English academic named John Peel (who was a student.)
- They settled in Long Ashton, near Bristol, several years later.
- They never had any children.
- Whilst living in Long Ashton, Andree received many visits from admirers and also managed to relieve the pain of visitors with injuries.
- Mrs. Peel received many awards from the French government for her resistance work.
- She was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the United States and the King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct by Britain.
- During the war she received a personal letter of appreciation from Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- She died peacefully at the age of 105 at the Lampton House nursing home on 5 March 2010.
- Her house was broken into somewhere between the 10th and 11 March 2010 and several items stolen, including copies of her autobiography. Police suspect that it was because of the widespread knowledge of her death after reporting in local and national newspapers.
My French comment:
Andrée Peel était une femme remarquable, elle a sauvé la France quand les allemagnes ont envahi. Aussi, elle a eu beaucoup de chance parce qu'elle était preque tué. Elle a mort très vielle, elle a eu 105 ans!
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