MONA PARSONS = WWII HERO = Single stamp -square cut from booklet Canada 2023 MNH

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Canada

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Mint (NH)

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Multiple

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Condition: MNH

Grade: VF (Very Fine)
MONA PARSONSWORLD WAR II HEROSingle stamp - square cut from booklet Canada 2023MNH"P" - PermanentTM Domestic rate (1st class mail)Please visit my STORE to find more similar items.Note: * Stock image(s) represent this listing. Item may not be exactly as shown.** Detailed images (if any) displayed for illustration purpose Only.***TO SAVE YOUR MONEY AND OUR TIME ON SHIPPING,PLEASE USE SHOPPING CART TO PURCHASE 2 OR MORE LOTS. * Multiple purchase will be automatically combined for a SINGLE INVOICE / PAYMENT with DISCOUNTED shipping through the Shopping Cart.** Also, you may REQUEST TOTAL from your Shopping Cart.*** For items listed in different currencies (diff. markets) you'll get different invoicesHonour the courage of Mona Parsons, who assisted downed Allied airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands, with this Permanent™ domestic rate stamp.This issue pays tribute to Mona Parsons, the only female Canadian civilian imprisoned by the Nazis during the Second World War. This issue highlights her remarkable story of resistance and escape, featuring a stamp design with her portrait and the North Nova Scotia Highlanders advancing into the Netherlands in the background.About Mona ParsonsBorn in Middleton, Nova Scotia, and raised in Wolfville, Mona Louise Parsons (1901-76) is the only female Canadian civilian to have been imprisoned by the Nazis during the Second World War. A former Ziegfeld Follies chorus dancer and nurse, Parsons married Dutch millionaire Willem Leonhardt in 1937 and the couple settled in Laren, Netherlands. Their life of luxury ended with the Nazi occupation in 1940. They helped the resistance network by hiding downed Allied airmen in their home. Arrested in September 1941, Parsons was condemned to death, though upon her own appeal, her sentence was commuted to life with hard labour in a German prison. In March 1945, an emaciated Parsons escaped with a young baroness, and the two made a long, dangerous trek on foot to the Netherlands.Once across the border, Parsons obtained assistance from soldiers who turned out to be from the North Nova Scotia Highlanders. Later reunited with her husband, she moved back to Nova Scotia after his death in 1956. Parsons received commendations from Britain and the United States for her courage in assisting the Allies. inkfrog terapeak

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