Christian Lamb was given the Legion d'honneur at a commemoration event in Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy.
A British naval officer who helped draw up maps for the D-Day invasion has been awarded France's highest honour by President Macron.
By the age of 20 she had been promoted to "leading wren" and soon became involved in plotting maps for ships involved in the war effort.Mrs Lamb recalled how she would be concerned when plotting maps for his ship, worried about his fate at sea. Her husband survived the war and the couple went on to have a family. Mrs Lamb had to keep her mapping work secret even from him until 40 years later.There she created maps for the landing craft that were central to the amphibious attack.
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