Kathleen_Godfrey

Kathleen Godfrey

Kathleen Godfrey

British air force officer

Kathleen Margaret Godfrey (marred names Kinmonth and Warren; 30 October 1922 – 19 October 2015) was a British Women's Auxiliary Air Force officer who served in two highly secretive roles during the Second World War; the first as a radio operator for radar and then at Hut 3 of Bletchley Park working to extract intelligence from cracked Enigma ciphers. Her father was John Henry Godfrey, a Royal Navy officer on whom Ian Fleming is said to have based James Bond's boss "M", and her mother was Bertha Margaret Godfrey (née Hope), one of the first women to go to Cambridge University and Neville Chamberlain's niece.[1][2][3]

References

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    Patrick, Beesly (11 August 2022). "Kathleen Margaret Godfrey [married names Kinmonth, Warren] (1922–2015)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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    "Kathleen Kinmonth Warren". The Times. 7 November 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  3. [3]
    "WW2 People's War - Breaking the Code: A WAAF at Bletchley". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC. 16 March 2004. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
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