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Alastair McNeill

Tributes paid following death of Bridge of Allan World War Two codebreaker aged 103

A Bridge of Allan family are mourning the death of a much-loved matriarch and veteran of the Allied code-breaking operation during World War Two.

Adelina ‘Lena’ Ferguson, nee Irvine – who started work as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, aged 24 – died on April 23 aged 103.

She had moved to the Bield Sheltered Housing in Bridge of Allan aged 99 from her home in Jordanhill in the west end of Glasgow, where she had lived for most of her life, to be closer to family.

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