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Marsali Wood was 19 on VE Day.

She had signed up to join the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry the year before and immediately began training in Morse code at Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire.

After reaching a speed of 26 words a minute, Marsali volunteered to go to India for South East Asia Command.

Based in Calcutta, her role was to send and receive coded messages to Special Operations Executive agents who were behind enemy lines in Burma.

Seventy years later, Marsali still translates shop names into Morse code while she鈥檚 waiting at traffic lights.

Image: Marsali Wood holding a photograph of her younger self.