- Contributed by
- 91ȱ Open Centre, Hull
- People in story:
- Mrs. M. Dunn. Story originally submitted to Beverley Civic Society
- Location of story:
- London
- Background to story:
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:
- A4201219
- Contributed on:
- 16 June 2005
I joined the WRNS in February 1941 “to fill in time until the war ended” because I planned to nurse and was expected to train at St Mary’s, London. London was being bombed at the time and my parents were concerned about my safety. Ironically I was sent in February to Greenwich Royal Naval College, and for the time I was there (about 2 1⁄2 months) I did not sleep in my bed once, because of the bombing.
I was sent, one of eight WRNS, to Bletchley Park to see whether we could do the job. This was concerned with the cracking of the Enigma Code, and from eight of us the number grew to a couple of thousand.
I met and married Thomas DD Dunn DFC while I was there, and was demobbed in October 1945.
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