![]() ![]() “Doing this work at an early age meant my life went down a totally different track. ![]() At the age of 95, Pat remains a tireless champion of her secret war work: lectures, theatre tours, television appearances, she uses any means available to explain her time at the coalmface of Britain’s massive interception mission. Her final listening post was Abbot’s Cliff in Kent. While she was not based at Bletchley, Pat was a Wren in the Y Service, which saw her move between three English coastal locations. I was given my own room and had some responsibility but I missed the girls’ chatter.” “I think I was promoted because I couldn’t type! Yes I suppose most of the Heads of Sections meetings were with men. Co-ordinating vital fact-finding forays long before the advent of the microchip, she remains modest about her wartime achievements. Pamela became head of Naval Indexing, a section that has subsequently been hailed as a precursor of the Information Age. ![]() She was one of the very few examples of women being promoted from “humdrum roles”. Still alive at the time of writing and thriving at 101, Pamela’s war work began with her recruitment to the indexing department of Hut 4. ![]() 3 women of Bletchley Park Pamela Rose (née Gibson) ![]()
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