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| | The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Warriors : Nancy Wake |
 | | Nancy Wake was born in the gusty heights of Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand, on 30 August 1912 to Charles Augustus and Ella Rosieur Wake, the youngest of six children. |
 | | Wake was raised without affection by her embittered mother after her father had walked out on them. |
 | | Nancy Wake, lives at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, but has recently expressed a desire to spend the remaining years of her life abroad, either in Britain, where many of her friends are, or France, where she rose to international fame during WWII (see postscript). |
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