She was only 17 and one of nine women transmitting critical messages back and forth between communications headquarters in England and the fighting in France, as the Allied invasion to liberate Western Europe began.Seventy-five years on from Jun 6, 1944, the wartime switchboard operator who heard men charging at the Nazi enemy is now a 92-year-old living a quiet life in a southwest London flat.
"There was excitement at the fort, but also apprehension. Will they succeed? What will be the cost in lives?" she recalled.A reproduction of a black and white photograph taken in 1944 and shown to AFP by former D-Day switchboard operator Marie Scott, shows women at work in the tunnels at Fort Southwick in Portsmouth, southern England. "The gunfire continued all the time we were passing messages and your hearts went out to the men," she said.
Her ordered, suburban garden flat is filled with opera CDs and tapes, while family photos and framed opera posters adorn the walls. "However obscure my life has been, it's been fulfilled. Mundane but immensely lucky. I've had a happy, good life," she said, mindful of the lives cut short or blighted by World War II."I couldn't believe it," she said after receiving the medal in the post, adding that she felt"totally undeserving, being a non-combatant".
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