Nancy Wake

Nancy Wake was in World War 2 .She died in a London hospital on the 8th of August at the age of 98. She was trained as a spy. In 1937 she she meet her future husband and they got married on the 30 of November. In the later years she hid in the forest from the Germans, with French Resistance fighters, and she killed a German with her bare hands, then she threw a grenade into the office were some Gestapo were having a meeting.

Nancy’s nickname was ‘The White Mouse’. The reason she got that nickname was because she was guiding some soldiers away from the Germans. The Germans knew someone was helping the Allies so they sent a warning out saying they're coming for her.

In the end, she had to go, so she left her husband as if she was going to the shops. A while later, her husband was tortured to death because he would not tell the Gestapo her where-abouts.

When the supplies were been ordered for the Resistance fighters and dropped to her by parachute, she always got make-up. When she returned from her spy duties she was devastated to find that her husband was not alive.


Nancy was the only one out of her 6 siblings to become a spy. We think she is a very brave and lip-stick loving woman and we appreciate what she did as an individual.

By Sarah & Hunter