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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