Bletchley Park secret-code breaking Canadian Wrens
CBC Radio | Posted: July 7, 2015 12:51 PM | Last Updated: July 7, 2015
Jean Tackaberry was one of the women known as the Canadian Wrens. They worled away in England, during the second world war, at the facility known as Bletchley Park.
You may have seen Bletchley depicted recently in the film "The Imitation Game." It's where the Axis powers' super secret codes were broken... and Jean Tackaberry kept the secrets of Bletchley Park with her for decades.
She did agree to speak, however, with May Hyde -- whose mother, Anne Hereford, was a comrade of Jean's at Bletchley Park.
Forty-eight years after Anne Hereford's death, May Hyde wanted to learn more about her mother's war time service. The two met at the Veterans Centre of Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. That meeting was recorded as part of The Current's Howard Goldenthal's documentary, "In Search of Anne."
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Jean Tackaberry, as she was known during the war became Jean Powell after she married. Sadly, Jean passed away on Friday, at the age of 94.
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