Anne Russell, who has died aged 90, worked at Bletchley Park in the Second World War

17 Dec 2013

OBITUARY : Anne Russell
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Anne Russell was a Bletchley Park decoding clerk who left to drive an 
ambulance and joined French Intelligence in Indo-China


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Anne Russell, who has died aged 90, worked at Bletchley Park in the Second 
World War before driving ambulances for the Free French during the Allied 
thrust into Germany; subsequently she was employed by the DeuxiÚme Bureau 
- French Military Intelligence - in the Indo-China campaign.

Aged just 17, Anne began working as a decoding clerk at Bletchley Park, 
the government code and cipher centre in Buckinghamshire. Alan Turing was 
in the next room and used to secure his mug to the radiator with two 
padlocks.

She subsequently became an ambulance driver for the Free French Forces 
and, in autumn 1944, joined the 9th Colonial Infantry Division. She took 
part in the Alsace campaign, the forced crossing of the Rhine and the 
advance through the Black Forest...../snip/

Anne Russell, born June 13 1923, died November 25 2013 



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