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Mona Parsons

Mrs. Willem Leonhardt

Mona Parsons Leonhardt Foster

1901 – 1976

Tombstone

Wolfville
Nova Scotia

Located in Willowbank Cemetery on the east side of Gaspereau Avenue

GPS location: 45°05'11"N 64°21'23"W

Photographed on 10 June 2004

Photographed on 11 June 2004

Mona Parsons was born in 1901 in Middleton, Nova Scotia.
During World War Two 1939-1945, she became part of a
resistance unit in Nazi-occupied Holland. In 1941, she was
condemned by a Nazi tribunal to death by firing squad, for
helping downed Allied airmen to escape from Holland.
In 1942, this sentence was commuted to a long term of
imprisonment. She managed to escape and made her way
to safety by posing as a German. Mona was presented with
citations from General Eisenhower and Air Chief Marshal Tedder
of the Royal Air Force for helping Allied airmen evade enemy capture.
Mona Parsons tombstone, Wolfville

Photographed on 11 June 2004

Clipping from the National Post, 23rd June 2005

From "Poise and Dignity Saved Mona Parsons"
by Patrick Watson, National Post, 23 June 2005

Mona Parsons Canadian Encyclopedia Featured Article
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?
PgNm=ArchivedFeatures&Params=A2144

Citation to Mona Leonhardt from Air Chief Marshal Tedder

The citation to Mona Leonhardt from Arthur W. Tedder, Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force
and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force

Photographed on 30 April 2008 in Spryfield, Nova Scotia

Arthur William Tedder Wikipedia

The citation to Mona Leonhardt from Dwight Eisenhower
Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
Commanding General United States Forces European Theater

Photographed on 30 April 2008 in Spryfield, Nova Scotia

Dwight David Eisenhower Wikipedia

Detail of citation to Mona Leonhardt from Dwight Eisenhower

Digitally enhanced detail from the Eisenhower citation:
"European Theater of Operations U.S.A. H.Q."

Links to Relevant Websites
Mona Parsons

Mona Parsons Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?
PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009759

Mona Louise Parsons Historica Minutes
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do;jsessionid=89C653
F93B2B01CB686B5A7AE5C1D062.tomcat2?id=14740

Mona Parsons Wolfville Historical Society Memorial Book
http://wolfvillehs.ednet.ns.ca/memorialbook/Parsons-Mona.htm

Mona Louise Parsons, by Athabasca University
http://www.athabascau.ca/wmst/november.php

The Wayback Machine has archived copies of
Mona Parsons
Athabasca University

Archived: 2004 November 16
http://web.archive.org/web/20041116060951/http://www.athabascau.ca/wmst/november.php

Archived: 2005 March 19
http://web.archive.org/web/20050319212735/http://www.athabascau.ca/wmst/november.php

Archived: 2005 October 30
http://web.archive.org/web/20051030162857/http://www.athabascau.ca/wmst/november.php

Archived: 2006 January 08
http://web.archive.org/web/20060108232925/http://www.athabascau.ca/wmst/november.php

These links were accessed and found to be valid on 2 May 2008.

Photographs of War Memorials, Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
http://ns1763.ca/remem/plaques.html

Planters monument Horton Landing
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/plantermon.html

Planters cairn Town Plot, Starrs Point
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/starrspt.html

Monument: 1747 Attack at Grand Pre Grand Pre
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/attack1747.html

J.F. Herbin memorial Grand Pre
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/herbin_jf.html

Iron Cross monument Horton Landing
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/ironcross.html

1967 Willow Park plaque Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/wolfwillow.html

Stephen P. Benjamin tombstone Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/benjaminsp.html

Sir Robert Laird Borden monument Grand Pre
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/borden_rl.html

Harold Borden monument, 1900 Canning
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/borden_h.html

Abraham Gesner monument Chipman Corner
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/gesnermem.html

North Mountain airplane crash memorial Brow of Mountain
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/browmtn.html

Wolfville war memorial Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/wolfmem.html

Acadia U. Memorial Gym Wolfville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/acadiamemgym.html

Canning war memorial Canning
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/cannmem.html

Acacia Villa School monument Hortonville
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/avschool.html

Prescott House Starrs Point
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/prescottcr.html

Wellington Dyke Starrs Point
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/wellington.html

Marguerite Woodworth tombstone Church Street
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/woodworth.html

Perez Coldwell memorial, 1852 "A man from Gaspereau"
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/coldwellp.html

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