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Melanie Bonn

Perth-born World War II code-breaking translator Carrie is fondly remembered

A woman who grew up in Perth, Scotland spent happy hours in her old age ‘revisiting’ the Fair City virtually from her home in California.

Caroline Dunsmore died recently, on November 23, 2021 aged 97, but one of the pastimes she enjoyed in later years was to go on a trip using Google Maps to see how her old home in Scotland was doing and to ‘visit’ familiar streets.

‘Carrie’ enjoyed a long life, including an important year which was spent translating for the British armed forces at Bletchley Park, home of the famous wartime code breakers.

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