Gabrielle Petit

Gabrielle Alina Eugenia Maria Petit was a Belgian woman who spied for the British Secret Service during World War I. Executed in 1916, she became a Belgian national heroine after the wars end.

Petit was born onFebruary 1893 in Tournai to workingclass parents. She was raised in a Catholic boarding school in Brugelette following her mothers early death. At the outbreak of the First World War, she was living in Brussels as a saleswoman. She immediately volunteered to serve with the Belgian Red Cross.

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