High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Susan Travers (23 September 1909?18 December 2003) was an Englishwoman who was the only woman to officially serve with the French Foreign Legion. Travers was born in Southern England, the daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, but grew up in the south of France, where she was a semi-professional tennis player. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Travers joined the French Red Cross as a nurse, but later became an ambulance driver with the French Expeditionary Force in Finland. With the German invasion of Denmark and Norway, she retreated from Denmark through to Finland.