Marie Ozanne

Marie Ozanne (1906 – 25 February 1943) was a major in The Salvation Army, and publicly protested about the treatment of prisoners of war as slave labourers by the German army during the Second World War.

Early life Ozanne was born on Guernsey in 1906. In 1923, she went to London and received Salvation Army training. She was serving in France and Belgium just before the Second World War started, but then she returned to Guernsey in 1940. The German Army occupied the Channel Islands on 30 June 1940.

A blue plaque in her honour was unveiled at her former home in the Vale, which is near St Sampson, on 23 February 2013. She was the first woman and the first non-artist awarded a plaque. She features on the 'Notable Women of Guernsey' walking trail.