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World War Two heroine 'Angel of Dieppe' dies at 103
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. On 19 August 1942, about 6,100 Allied soldiers tried to storm the beach at the port town of Dieppe, France. The operation was considered a total disaster. Troops found themselves blocked from access points by concrete obstacles and overwhelmed by German firepower. Within 10 hours, some 3,367 soldiers were killed or captured. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-21 |
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