Codebreaking Sisters
Codebreaking Sisters Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. When war breaks out in 1939, Patricia is snapped up by the Wrens…
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Codebreaking Sisters
Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. When war breaks out in 1939, Patricia is snapped up by the Wrens and posted to top-secret listening stations along the British coastline. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and the sisters quickly become fluent in German - which will go on to shape their roles for ever.
Jean's quick brain for crossword solving lands her a secretive role as Code & Cipher Officer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Collaborating with Bletchley Park, she is tasked with intercepting German shipping radio in a bid to crack the seemingly impenetrable Enigma Code. At just 18 years of age, Jean is posted to Cairo, before moving on to Italy to aid the Partisan efforts against the Nazis.
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