Farewell to White Angel

A FRENCH nun affectionately named “the white angel” by the Canadian soldiers she saved during one of the worst disasters to befall Allied forces during World War II has died aged 103, authorities said on Saturday.

Sister Agnes-Marie Valois died on Thursday in a monastery, officials in the northern town of Dieppe said.

She tended to wounded soldiers in the Dieppe Raid of August 19, 1942, when a 6000strong force of mainly Canadian but also British troops briefly seized the Channel port held by the Germans.