Sister Olga Baudot de Rouville (1891 – 1979)

1. Cumbria County Council bookmarks:

[Left]: Sister Olga Baudot de Rouville (1891 – 1979)

A Red Cross nurse and M.I.9 agent

[Right]: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux prayer card

2. Cumbria County Council poster:

Sister Olga Baudot de Rouville and related documents

Part of an Archives exhibition (Dec. 2015 / Jan. 2016)

3. Two M.I. 9 ‘PAT’ line agents of WW2:

[Left]: "Françoise" with General De Gaulle

"Françoise" became head of the escape and evasion line

(Her true name was Marie-Louise Dissard)

[Right]: Olga Baudot de Rouville / ‘‘Thérèse Martin’’

A photograph used for a false I.D. card 

4. False I.D. card for “Suzanne Marie Gauthier”:

One of several false I.D. cards Olga used in the war

She was using this identity in the middle of 1944 

5. Haute- Savoie Health Service order:   

Issued to “Suzanne Gauthier” (18/09/1944)

Issued by the C.F.L.N. (F.F.I)

(French Committee of National Liberation)

(Issued shortly after the Liberation)

6. Travel Pass of “Suzanne Gauthier”:   

Authorising a journey to Paris after the Liberation

Issued by the Liberation Committee (19/09/1944) 

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Cumbria County Libraries and Archives Service

December 2015 – January 2016

“A Most Remarkable Woman”

An exhibition has been arranged at the Whitehaven Archives and Local Studies Centre about the life and the wartime experiences of Maud Olga Andrée Baudot de Rouville (1891 – 1979). It is based on a collection of her personal documents, photographs and possessions held by the Cumbria County Libraries and Archives Service. 

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The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

1. The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich (O.R.N.C.)

[Now home to the Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre] 

2. The story of the Old Royal Navy College, Greenwich
Its motto: "By wisdom as much as war"
(Displayed at the Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre)

3. Part of the Oral History collection of the O.R.N.C.:
Naval Officer Derek Gaulter speaks about D-Day  

4. Another part of the Oral History collection:
The story of the WRNS training courses after 1939 

5. WW2 Cipher Officer Jane Eldridge tells her story.
(As a wartime WRN, she trained at Greenwich 1942/1943)

6. WW2 Officer Susan Martin (nee Byron) tells her story.
(As a wartime WRN, she also trained at Greenwich)
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A 1939 Electric Delivery Vehicle

1. Harrod’s Electric Vehicle No. 952 (side view)
This is a local 'carrying and delivering’ vehicle
Built in 1939 it was one of a fleet of 60 electric vehicles 

2. Harrod’s Electric Vehicle No. 952 (EYT 382)  

The restored vehicle is still being used: 

Covent Garden, London (November 2015) 

3. The story of Harrod’s inter-war electric vehicles

Display at Covent Garden, London (November 2015) 

4. Jonathan, a modern day chauffeur of E.V. 952

(Many original drivers were disabled ex-servicemen)

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Poppies at Remembrance time

1. The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London (November 2015)
With poppy wreaths remembering the 'Fallen'

2. Close up of the poppy wreaths left at the Cenotaph

3. Poppy wreath left by London Transport (November 2015)
(Remembering comrades who fell in the World Wars)

4. Monument to the Women of WW2 
A garland of poppies encircles the monument

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The British Museum remembers

1. Main entrance of the British Museum, London

2. War Memorial of the British Museum
(Adjacent to the main entrance of the museum)
It remembers staff who died in the two World Wars 

3. Commemorating the staff who died in the 1914 - 1918 war

4. Commemorating the staff who died in the 1939 - 1945 war

5. Tributes placed at the British Museum War Memorial

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Brussels Liberated (September 1944)

1. Museum of the City of Brussels (La Maison du Roi)

Grand’ Place, Brussels, Belgium

The city’s principal museum in the heart of the city

2. Memorials to the Belgian resistants of September 1944

[Gifts of the 4^th Battalion of Fusiliers in September 1969]

3. Model of the ‘Mannequin Pis’ / ‘Manneken Pis’

[Dressed in the uniform of the Welsh Guards]

It is found in the Museum of the City of Brussels 

4. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Brussels

[Situated at the base of the Congress Column]

This is Belgium’s national monument

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