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It was 1942 and I was 19, going on 20. I worked in the Dumpy Caves in Dover Castle where the plotting went on. I was on teleprinters, sending and receiving messages.

We had signals coming in from all over England about convoys and what was happening and going to happen. I met my husband here and he would decipher and decode the messages that came in the machines.
We used to look out for the convoys in the Channel hoping they wouldn鈥檛 be shelled. It was most frightening hoping they wouldn鈥檛 get shelled. We knew they were coming but did the Germans? If you were on duty, we鈥檇 stand on the cliff edge praying they wouldn鈥檛 be shelled.

You worked the same hours as on the ships; four hours on, four hours off; you were too tired.
I remember sleeping in wet blankets because they were damp in the tunnels, but that was little to pay.

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