Post-war
After the war she applied to and was formally enrolled in the Légion Étrangère, as an Adjutant-Chef.
Travers served in Vietnam, during the First Indochina War. She married Adjutant-Chef Nicolas Schlegelmilch, who had fought at Bir Hakeim with the 13th Demi-Brigade. They had two sons. In retirement, they lived on the outskirts of Paris.
In 2000, aged 91, assisted by Wendy Holden, she wrote her autobiography, Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion, having waited for all the other principals in her life story to die before writing it.
Travers was decorated with the Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre and Médaille Militaire.
Susan Travers died at the age of 94. She was survived by a son, Thomas, and two granddaughters, Adela and Eleanor.
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