Lorna Collacott (Dec. 13, 1924 – April 19, 2019) kept WW2 code work secret for 50 years

For 50 years Lorna Collacott kept her real role during the Second World War a secret.
She was coding and decoding messages for the Battle of the Atlantic but her parents and her husband never knew she was more than just an office clerk.
She loved celebrating whatever she could celebrate
The Windsor woman who stunned her grown children when she nonchalantly mentioned the secret code work in the late 1990s died on Good Friday. She was 94.
“That’s the part that always amazed me. People