Nancy Grace Augusta 'The White Mouse' Wake, GM, AC

Date of birth	1912-08-30	Wellington, New Zealand. Nancy spent most of her childhood in Australia.
Other	1928	Found work as a Nurse.
Other	1932	Travelled to Europe and settled in Paris, working as a journalist.
Other	1939-11	Wake married a French businessman, Henri Fiocca.
Other	1940 - 1942	Wake and Fiocca joined the French Resistance movement. Wake worked manning the dangerous escape routes through France helping to save the lives of many Allied troops and Jewish refugees. She was given her code name 'The White Mouse' by the Gestapo.
Other	1943	Wake became one of the Gestapo's most wanted resistance leaders and Wake was forced to flee France.
Other	1943-06	Wake arrived in England where after convincing the British Government to train her as a professional spy and she began work in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive.
Other	1943-08	Henri Fiocca was killed by the Gestapo, a fact Nancy did not discover until the liberation of france from the German invasion.
Other	1944-04	Wake and another member of the Special Operations Executive were parachuted into the Auvergne region in central France where they worked to distribute weapons among the resistance fighters in hiding in the mountains before D-Day.
Other	1944-09	Wake left the resistance and went to Special Operations Executive Headquarters in Paris.
Other	1944-10	Went to Special Operations Executive Headquarters in London.
Date of honour or award	1945-07-17	Awarded George Medal (GM).
Date returned to Australia	1949	Wake later returned to England where she married John Forward a RAF officer.
Date returned to Australia	1957	Settled in Port MacQuarie with her husband.
Other	2001-12-06	Returned to England where she plans to remain until her death.
Date of honour or award	2004-02-22	Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).