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Newspaper clipping of General De Gaulle in London and the French flag being raised outside his new headquarters after fleeing the German occupation of France in 1940. De Gaulle was the French military leader and appealed to all Frenchmen to resisit the occupation. Clapham resident Joyce Luck worked for De Gaulle at Forces Francaises Libres ('Free French') from the age of 16 years as a secretary, assisting the French underground movement (the Maquis) once the D-Day invasion to liberate France had begun in June 1944.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:	06840
Identifier:	IV 169 Vol.4
Date:	1940

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