Patricia and Jean Owtram were so well-trained that it was almost a further decade before, during a holiday together, Patricia thought to ask her sister: “By the way, Jean, what were you actually doing in Italy?” 🖋️ EtanSmallman
in 1942, she panicked for a moment that she had accidentally volunteered to be a spy who would have to jump out of a plane. “That seemed absolutely terrifying. I thought: ‘What have I done?’” In fact, as a Y Service linguist interceptor with the Women’s Royal Navy Service, or Wrens, she would spend the war along Britain’s coastline, picking up radio messages from German torpedo boats.
. By law, ‘mum’ was the word until 1975. The duo were so well-trained that it was almost a further decade before, during a holiday together, Patricia thought to ask her sister: “By the way, Jean, what were you actuallyJean explained that her aptitude at crosswords had secured her a role as a code and cipher officer with the Special Operations Executive, and she was posted to support Allied agents embedded with partisans working against the Nazis in Egypt and the Balkans.
It was her German skill that made senior officers overlook her “not terribly good health record” and post her to top-secret Y stations at a former boarding house in East Yorkshire, a golf course in Dorset, and a requisitioned private home in Kent.
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