Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameMarinos (Athanasios) Vagliano, 6C4R
Birth1882
MemoAnother source says 1883.
Death9 Jul 1959, Clinique Juvenet, 6 Square Juvenet, Paris, France
Residence1959, 46 Drei Linden Strasse, Lucerne, Switzerland
OccupationMerchant.
OriginCephalonia.
Note 1They were rich residents of Cannes holding open house to German officers whose conversations they forwarded through other resistance links (e.g. George Rodocanachi) to London. They were unaware that their daughter, until her arrest, was a courier too.
Note 2A champion golfer and president of the prestigious golf club at Cannes-La Napoul.
Note 3Presumably he was the Vagliano referred to as helping to finance Pat Line’s WWll escape and evasion network, as described by Louis Nouveau in ‘Des Capitaines Par Milliers’.
Flags***, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Ralli (Spechlis), Scanavi, Scaramanga, Sechiari, Vagliano
FatherAthanasios (Marino) Vagliano (1854-1936)
MotherCaterina ‘Catina’ (Stephanos) Ralli (1861-1941)
Marriage11 Jul 1907, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England
SpouseDanäe (Basil) Vagliano
Birth1886, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium
Death21 Nov 1958, Zurich, Switzerland
Note 1She was captain of the French Ladies' Golf Team, and the international Vagliano Trophy still exists in her name.
Marr. WitnessAngeliki A. Vagliano and Stephen Vagliano.
FlagsVagliano
FatherBasil Metaxa (Metaxa) Vagliano (1847-1906)
MotherChariclea ‘Claire’ Portogalloglou (~1863-1948)
Children
Birth1909, Paris, France
Death15 Aug 1944, Near Nice, France
MemoMurdered by the Gestapo, along with 23 other Résistants. Maureen Emerson writes: “On the 15 August, from her cell, Hélène heard a voice calling out in the street that the Allies had landed along the coast at Frejus. Overjoyed, she exclaimed to her cell companion, who later relayed it to Hélène's mother, that now France was liberated nothing else mattered and her work was done: 'mon petit morceau est fini'. During the course of the same afternoon, on a Riviera bombarded day and night by Allied planes, Hélène and twenty-three other prisoners were collected together and driven in the direction of the Ariane quarter behind Nice. The road to their destination was called the Chemin de la Croix - the Path of the Cross. - -On a piece of land in front of a sheer rock face and bordered by a small river, the group was lined up to face the water. Watched with horror from behind closed shutters by a local farmer and his daughter, the Germans set up their machine guns across the river from the prisoners. All twenty-four died that day. On Hélène's right fell a priest who had been arrested for burying two Resistants shot by the Gestapo. On her left, a young blonde girl who had acted as nurse to the Maquis. Further down was Commandant de Lattre de Tassigny, a retired cousin of the General de Lattre who would lead the French forces from the beaches of the Riviera to victory in Berlin. The Commander's son had joined the Resistance and his father had been taken as hostage. The son had already been captured and shot two days previously. Lying beside Hélène was a little basket, which her mother had managed to get to her, containing a piece of bread and a pear. It was her lunch, for she had thought she was being taken to another prison to be interrogated.”
SpouseViolette [Vagliano] (?-)
Marriage?