A woman who helped lead the Allies to victory in WWII by sending secret codes to the British Army from a small tin hut on the moors has died at the age of 101.
Agnes Kelly was 20-years-old and working as a shop assistant in Edge Hill when she was called to join the Auxiliary Territorial Service in March 1942. After three weeks of basic training and aptitude tests at the Peninsula Barracks in Warrington, she was selected for the Royal Corps of Signals, and spent the next three years as a teleprinter operator, touch-typing and sending top secret coded messages to British forces overseas.
She died on Friday, August 26, surrounded by her family at the Connell Court Residential Care Home in Southport.
