Bletchley Park code-buster Anne V. Hereford's secret WWII story

The Current producer Howard Goldenthal follows up on a listener's email only to uncover new details of a mother's secretive war-time work for the British in our documentary "In Search of Anne."...

CBC Radio · Posted: Dec 11, 2014 12:00 AM EST | Last Updated: July 7, 2015

The Current10:25Anne V. Hereford and the secret WWII code-busting world of Bletchley Park - Dec 11, 2014

The Current producer Howard Goldenthal follows up on a listener's email only to uncover new details of a mother's secretive war-time work for the British in our documentary "In Search of Anne."

"The Imitation Game," is a new movie opening tomorrow night in Toronto, and across the country on Christmas Day. The movie is set in Bletchley Park, a top secret establishment in World War Two England, where some great minds went to work at breaking Nazi codes.

The brilliant mathematician Alan Turing worked there and he's the hero of that new film.

But Bletchley was also the home to a handful of women with the Canadian Navy, known as Wrens, who quietly worked in the shadows to help defeat the Axis.

This is the story of two of those Canadian Wrens. The documentary by the Current's Howard Goldenthal is called "In Search of Anne."

Top Row: Wren W. Grimmet, Wren L. Beck, Wren I. Millar, Wren H. Dickinson, Wren J. Hale, Wren J. Tackaberry, Wren B. Maxwell-Smith, Wren M. Parker.

Middle Row: Wren T. Schatz, Wren P. Code, Wren S. Mapin, Wren A. Hereford.

Bottom Row: Wren E. Knox, Wren B. Dugal, Wren N. Baker.

Below is a train ticket, Pembroke V is one of the code names for Bletchley Park.