Anne-Marie Trégouët
Anne-Marie Trégouët (born Perret 23 February 1925 Loyat - 22 March 2024 Nantes) was a French resistance fighter . On 1 August 2020, she was awarded the knight of the Legion of Honor in front of her family, in Nantes ,[1]
She was a liaison officer with the French Interior Forces in Morbihan. She participated in the Saint-Marcel maquis and was part of the Women's Auxiliaries of the Army .
Life change
At the end of 1943, at the age of 19, she was recruited by the local Resistance . The Sacré-Cœur high school in Ploërmel , where she was a teacher, was occupied by the Germans, and her position allowed her to observe their activity.[2]
On the night of the 5 June 1944, SAS commando operations were deployed in Morbihan, in support of the Normandy landings . The head of the Morbihan FFI , Colonel Morice , organized the gathering of resistance fighters on the Nouette farm, near the village of Saint-Marcel. . Anne-Marie Trégouët joined the Saint-Marcel maquis . She welcomed the parachutes and participated in various resistance actions: courier supplies, and resupply of grenades.[3]
On 18 June the maquis were discovered by a German patrol . Anne-Marie Trégouët continued to serve as liaison officer and helped the wounded. After the SAS and the FFI were forced to withdraw, she took refuge in a neighboring village, and continued to act in the vicinity of Ploërmel. Her uncle, Ange Mounier, 39 years old from Ploërmel, was killed in Lézonnet, Loyat, on 4 August during a clash between paratroopers and FFI against German soldiers.
The young teacher decided to leave her teaching job to enlist for a year in the AFAT , the women's auxiliaries of the Army.[3]
She died on 22 March 2024 . She was buried in the Taupont cemetery .[1]
References change
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 MARTINEZ, Sacha (2020-08-02). "Nantes. Anne-Marie Tregouët, héroïne anonyme de la Résistance". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ↑ "Mairie-de-Taupont-Brochure-" (PDF). .taupont.fr.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Débarquement : il y a 75 ans, tout ne s'est pas déroulé en Normandie". France 24 (in French). 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2024-05-01.