Mary Lindell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Lindell

British-born nurse, French Resistance member

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Sutton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1986

Profession: nurse

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ghita Mary Lindell (11 September 1895 – 1986), Comtesse de Milleville, code named Marie-Claire and Comtesse de Moncy, was an English woman, a front-line nurse in World War I and a member of the French Resistance in World War II.
She founded and led the Marie-Claire Line, helping Allied airmen and soldiers escape from Nazi-occupied France.
The airmen were survivors of military airplanes shot down over occupied Europe.
During the course of the war, she was run over by an automobile, shot in the head, imprisoned twice, and captured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Her son Maurice was captured and tortured.
Her son Octave (Oky), also captured, disappeared and presumably died in a German concentration camp.
Outspoken, controversial and imperious, Lindell was called a "false heroine" by one critic, but she is credited with helping about 100 allied airmen escape from France.
At Ravensbrück she became the self-appointed leader of the American and British women imprisoned by Nazi Germany and helped them survive by aiding in their release to the Swedish Red Cross in the closing days of World War II.