Margaret Martha Gertrude Taylor (1920 - 2006)

Born 5 Dec 1920 in Salles, Gironde, France

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Died 8 Jun 2006 at age 85 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Biography

Peggy Taylor is Notable.

Peggy Taylor was a French Spy in World War II.

World War II spy who obtained information that assisted with the D-Day invasion of Allied troops in France

Margaret, better known as Peggy, was born in 1920. She was the daughter of Herbert Taylor and Anne-Marie Le Coq.

She enlisted in the Free French Forces and served as a paratrooper and a spy, craftily posing as a prostitute to obtain information. She performed 22 parachute jumps. ^[1] Her jumps into occupied France, obtained recruits, money, and secret documents. She jumped wearing a skirt and with her high heels tied on a string around her neck. She always thought "women need to look their best and can do whatever they want." At the age of 21, she assassinated a Nazi SS colonel after earning his trust and setting up a dinner date with him.

She bicycled around the Normandy coast, blowing kisses to the German military personnel stationed there, while at the same time she collected information about the number and position of tanks and other military structures. The information she found was invaluable, as it is believed to have influenced the date of D-Day. For her military achievements, she received the Croix de Guerre and the French Resistance medal twice.

She died on 8 June 2006 and was buried in Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ Margaret “Peggy” Taylor. 1920-2006, A temptress and spy, 'almost like the black widow,' she seduced secrets from Nazis in France, https://archive.macleans.ca/article/2006/6/26/margaret-peggy-taylor-1920-2006 (Accessed December 1, 2022)
2. ↑ Burial: "Canada, Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current"
   URL: Find A Grave: Memorial #216653394
   Ancestry Record 60527 #180898116 (accessed 1 December 2022)
   Margaret Martha Gertrude Taylor burial (died on 8 Jun 2006) in Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada.
3. ↑ Margaret Taylor Obituary, https://calgaryherald.remembering.ca/obituary/margaret-taylor-1065682116 (Accessed December 1, 2022)

• New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2008 Provo, UT, USA Record Collection 1277 Note: Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests. The National Archives at Washington, D.C.

See Also:

• Wikipedia: Peggy Taylor
• Wikidata: Item Q7160754, en:Wikipedia