OBITUARY : Liz Garvin, intelligence operative

OBITUARY : Liz Garvin, intelligence operative
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Decorated wartime intelligence officer who later founded a school 

Liz Garvin, who has died aged 92, was an intelligence officer at General 
Eisenhower’s HQ in Normandy after D-Day and was awarded the American 
Bronze Star Medal.

In June 1944, a few weeks after D-Day, Liz Eberlie ( as she then was ) 
crossed the Channel to work at Eisenhower’s Advance HQ at Granville, at 
the foot of the Cherbourg peninsula. She helped to produce daily 
intelligence summaries on which the Supreme Allied Commander and his 
generals relied in planning their strategy..../snip/


....In early 1945, based at SHAEF, she was one of a small group who were 
initiated into the mysteries of Ultra. Combining the information provided 
by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park with that produced from other 
sources, her job was to assess the strength and disposition of the German 
forces and calculate their future deployment. The citation for the award 
to her of the American Bronze Star Medal stated that she was largely 
responsible for the intelligence on which successful airborne operations 
were based.

Elizabeth Mary Frances Eberlie was born on January 30 1922 at Luton, 
Bedfordshire. She was educated at Queen Anne’s School, Caversham, 
Berkshire, where she represented the school at tennis, lacrosse and 
cricket and won the prize for the best all-round athlete...../snip/


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