The Archive · 1940

Women's Foreign Legion

[Ced by. R. A. F — Formed in France

Tof ah English Coastal Com-Chiefly Recruited From and magazines to light ho 1 Refugees remote islands off the northern coast jo) pave lately undertaken new respon-It is a legion of goodwill, recruited One of the lighthouse-from foreign women living in France. Jeepers wrote. to the squadron say-Most of the women are refuge ing that he had a dog companion, and writes a correspondent in P. trap: that it liked bones.

So the pilots now These Legionaires will wear no uni keep the dog supplied. forms, but they are willing to under-"When aircraft are on regular flights take any service that France may ask. over the island they carry knuckle {Those who cannot help with money bones or other hibits obtained from will offer to tend the wounded and the cookhouse. The pilots say that sick—civil and military. the dog now knows the meaning of 'They will establish a welfare centre thei' arrival. It rushes, barking for soldiers of the French Foreign excitedly, across the tiny island when Legion. the aigraft approach, watching the The founder, Madame Hitzbleckjes alb and pouncing on them Pláhner, is a Polish refugee.

Before they have stopped British and American women have

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