"La Miss" (or maybe Chuck's Grandmom)

[Leesifer]

The only woman in the French Foreign Legion

Born in southern England as the daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, but raised as a young tennis-playing socialite in the south of France, Travers was among thousands of women who joined the French Red Cross at the outbreak of the Second World War.

Trained as a nurse, she spurned that as being "far too messy" for the more exciting role of ambulance driver, joining the French expeditionary force to Finland to help in the Winter War against the Russians.

[erimir]

The French helped the Finnish?

I guess this was before the Russians became a French ally against the Germans...

[godfry n. glad]

Some lead good lives. Interesting lives. Others, not so much.

Bravo for her, taking those paths and surviving. Her tale shall probably be a good one, her adventures having been both relished as they happened and then savored over an obviously long life.