Louisa Gould

Louisa Mary Gould (née Le Druillenec, 7 October 1891 – 13 February 1945)[1] was a Jersey shopkeeper and a member of the resistance in the Channel Islands during World War II.

From 1942 until her arrest in 1944, Gould sheltered an escaped Soviet forced labourer known as Fyodor Polycarpovich Buriy [ru] on the island of Jersey.

[7][11] During World War II and the German occupation of the Channel Islands, the Nazis used captured Soviet servicemen as forced labour.

Beginning in late 1942, Gould hid an escaped forced labourer, Fyodor Polycarpovich Buriy [ru], a pilot captured after his aircraft had been shot down.

They found a scrap of paper that had been used as a Christmas gift tag, addressed to Buriy, and a Russian-English dictionary that he had used for practising his English.

Ivy Forster was spared deportation on health grounds after a doctor pretended that she was suffering from tuberculosis; she instead served her prison sentence of five months and fifteen days in Jersey.

[24][25][26] It was, according to historian Freddie Cohen, the first time that the UK Government recognised the heroism of Jersey islanders during the German occupation.