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I feel they’re watching me – Pride of Wren aged 100 as she visits old barracks

Dorothea Barron laid the first brick as her old barracks near Edinburgh which is being transformed into housing.

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2025

VE Day was a ‘jolly’ moment but work went on, 100-year-old former Wren says

Ruth Barnwell, from Putney, heard the Germans had surrendered during lunchtime at HMS Quebec, a combined operations centre in Inveraray.

The Independent UK · May 1, 2025

Radio operator Marie Scott provided a link to D-Day beaches at age 17

Marie Scott experienced British forces landing on the Normandy coast through her earphones

The Independent UK · May 31, 2024

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Dorothea Barron watched over men who tested portable harbors for D-Day

Dorothea Barron got a sneak preview of the Normandy landings from a watchtower on the coast of Scotland

The Independent UK · May 31, 2024

One of the last surviving female codebreakers of Bletchley Park dies aged 99

Margaret Betts, of Ipswich, Suffolk, was 19 years old when she was headhunted by ‘men from the ministry’.

The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2023

Incredible story of WWII heroines who dodged Nazi bullets and heard true horrors of war

To celebrate International Women’s Day, both Mildred, now 99, and Marie, 96, share their memories of cutting their education short at teenagers to help defeat the Nazis

Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023

Inside life of women who outwitted Adolf Hitler and won brutal Battle of the Atlantic

The Royal Navy viewed female staff as typists and car drivers but head of the Women’s Royal Naval Service Vera Laughton Matthews had been recruiting the cream of the crop

Daily Mirror · Feb 18, 2023

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Best friends who 'spent years' searching for each other reunited after phone call

"We had both changed a bit - we looked much older"

Liverpool Echo · Jul 3, 2022

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