Madge Addy was a remarkable woman who not only went out to Spain during the Spanish Civil War but went onto serve as an agent in occupied France.*
It is a story I have been uncovering for a while and was prompted by a request from Cll Shelia Newman to research the life of Madge Addy who lived in Chorlton.**
Interest has grown in Ms Addy since Chris Hall suggested that there should be a memorial plaque to this brave woman and there may be some who also have knowledge of Madge or would like to make a contribution to the cost of the plaque and if so please contact Chris by email at christoff_hall@yahoo.com or on 0161 861 7448.
The campaign for the blue plaque is fully supported by Chorlton's three councillors.
And as part of that campaign I wrote a short article in the Chorlton edition of Open Up and here the story takes a twist.***
My old friend Ida read the story and was in the process of reading Silk and Cyanide by Leo Markes about the operations of the British Special Operations Executive.
In a previous conversation Ida had suggested that this was the book which might offer up a clue about MS Addy
And sure enough in a one line sentence there is a reference to an unnamed agent who carried secret documents from Denmark to Sweden on a German civilian aircraft. It might not be Madge but we know she did travel this route during 1940.
So perhaps a little bit more has come to light.
Location; Chorlton, Spain, France
Picture; Nurse Madge Addy giving a blood transfusion; Daily Worker, November 11, 1938 and Madge Addy, 1938
*Madge Addy, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Madge%20Addy
**Cllr Shelia Newman, cllr.s.newman@manchester.gov.uk 0161 234 1841 (Town Hall)
***Open Up, http://openupmagazines.co.uk/chorlton/
Interest has grown in Ms Addy since Chris Hall suggested that there should be a memorial plaque to this brave woman and there may be some who also have knowledge of Madge or would like to make a contribution to the cost of the plaque and if so please contact Chris by email at christoff_hall@yahoo.com or on 0161 861 7448.
The campaign for the blue plaque is fully supported by Chorlton's three councillors.
And as part of that campaign I wrote a short article in the Chorlton edition of Open Up and here the story takes a twist.***
In a previous conversation Ida had suggested that this was the book which might offer up a clue about MS Addy
And sure enough in a one line sentence there is a reference to an unnamed agent who carried secret documents from Denmark to Sweden on a German civilian aircraft. It might not be Madge but we know she did travel this route during 1940.
So perhaps a little bit more has come to light.
Location; Chorlton, Spain, France
Picture; Nurse Madge Addy giving a blood transfusion; Daily Worker, November 11, 1938 and Madge Addy, 1938
*Madge Addy, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Madge%20Addy
**Cllr Shelia Newman, cllr.s.newman@manchester.gov.uk 0161 234 1841 (Town Hall)
***Open Up, http://openupmagazines.co.uk/chorlton/
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