08/05/2026
Norwich, GB 6 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

CHARLOTTE ‘BETTY’ WEBB, aged 101

After joining the army during the war, she became a codebreaker working at Bletchley Park, before being seconded to the USA and being employed at the Pentagon.

PAULINE GILL, aged 97

A WREN who was recruited to work for Bletchley Park during it’s wartime codebreaking programme, she kept her secrets for many years until they wereaccidentally uncovered.

JEAN ARGLES, aged 97

She worked as an SOE operative, running agents throughout the war and deciphering codes, as her sister worked with Bletchley Park and her father was in a POW camp.