05/03/2026
Norwich, GB 8 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

NOREEN RIOLS, aged 98

Working for the SOE during the war, she helped train spies that went to France to fight the Nazis. Her job was to ensure agents were ready and fit for purpose.

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.