Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 12

Honolulu Holiday for Tahiti War Heroine

p. 99 · Read in the full issue

Page 9999

Tahiti War Heroine

nrVHE TEAL plane of May 5, A carried off, en route to a well deserved holiday in Honolulu, the matron in charge of the Papette Hospital, Miss Maadi Gobray.

She completed her early training as a nurse in New Zealand and on returning to Tahiti at the out break of the Second World War joined the Free French.

She saw active service in field hospitals in Syria, Africa, Germany and France and was the deserving recipient for bravery and service decorations, among them being the Legion de Honneur, the Croix de Guerre, etc.

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