Tag Archives: France

Girls of the Pony Patrol

Bunty, ,

Plot

Fourteen-year-old Sadie Winters had an English father and a French mother, and the family lived at the French village of Auterne. Sadie loved horses, and she worked as a groom at the White Chateau, a nearby finishing school which had pupils from all over the world. When the German armies invaded France during the Second World War, Sadie volunteered to lead five pupils on horseback to the port of St Malo, where they hoped to board a boat for England.

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Appeared

  • Girls of the Pony Patrol – Bunty: #259 (29 December 1962) – #270 (16 March 1963)

Suzette’s Silent Army

Judy, , ,

Plot

During the second world war France was occupied by German troops and the Gestapo – the German secret police. Suzette Blanc and her English mother owned a small waxworks in the little town of St Pierre and unknown to the nazis the waxworks was the headquarters for the local freedom fighters and Suzette was helping with their operations.

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Appeared

  • Suzette’s Silent Army – Judy: #651 (1 July 1972) – #662 (16 September 1972)