Localisation - Ligging: National Memorial Arboretum, Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove, Croxall Road.

Coordonnées GPS - GPS-coördinaten: +52°43'42.9", -1°43'53.0"

Inscriptions - Opschriften

"20th FEBRUARY 1893 - 1st APRIL 1916

GABRIELLE ALINA EUGENIA MARIA PETIT
AGE 23
BRITISH SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
BELGIAN CITIZEN

WHEN BELGIUM WAS INVADED DURING AUGUST 1914 GABRIELLE JOINED THE BELGIAN
RED CROSS AND THEN HELPED FER FIANCÉ CROSS THE DUTCH BORDER AFTER HE WAS
WOUNDED AND CAPTURED, BUT HE MANAGED TO ESCAPE. ON THE WAY SHE NOTED ENEMY
POSITIONS AND PASSED THIS AND OTHER INFORMATION TO BRITISH INTELLIGENCE.

THIS LED TO HER BEING RECRUITED INTO SIS AND SUBSEQUENTLY HELPED MANY MORE
SOLDIERS ESCAPE WHILST DISTRIBUTING THE CLANDESTINE NEWSPAPER LA LIBRE BELGIQUE
AND HELPED THE RESISTANCE MAIL SERVICE CALLED "MOT DU SOLDAT."

IN FEBRUARY 1916 SHE WAS BETRAYED, ARRESTED BY THE GERMAN MILITARY AND SENT TO
PRISON DE ST. GILLES NEAR BRUSSELS. SHE WAS CONVICTED OF ESPIONAGE AND THE
DEATH SENTENCE PASSED IN MARCH.

ON 1st APRIL 1916 GABRIELLE WAS SHOT BY A FIRING SQUAD IN SCHAERBEEK AND HER
BODY BURIED IN A FIELD THERE. IN MAY 1919 A STATE FUNERAL WAS HELD FOR HER AND
TWO FELLOW AGENTS. THEY WERE BURIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONOURS IN SCHAERBEEK
CEMETERY.

THIS REMARKABLE RESISTER GAVE HER LIFE FOR HER COUNTRY TO HELP THE ALLIED
CAUSE AND FREE HER PEOPLE FROM ENSLAVEMENT AND TYRANNY.

AMELANCHIER CANADENSIS TREE - GARDEN 4 - ALLIED SPECIAL FORCES MEMORIAL GROVE"

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