Ensign Jean Owtram, who had fallen off a cliff and almost drowned? And Pat Davies, 97, and Jean Argles, 95, now tell of their own exploits in a joint memoir called Codebreaking Sisters: Our War. Pat and Jean grew up in Newland Hall, near Lancaster, where their father, a First World War veteran, ran a cotton mill. After the war, Pat went to university before joining the Daily Mail in Manchester as their only female reporter. “Then Pat told me about the Y service and I felt very proud of my big sister.

Source: Daily Mirror July 22, 2020 17:14 UTC