Jean Argles (née Owtram) (7 November 1925 – 2 April 2023) was a Second World War code breaker and cipher officer. She and her sister Pat Davies are often referred to as "The Codebreaking Sisters". As a teenager, Jean Owtram joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) in London, signing the Official Secrets Act 1911 and working in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She contributed to the SOE’s resistance network behind enemy lines, decoding messages from agents in the field. Promoted to the rank of officer at the age of 18, she worked in Egypt, Italy and Austria. In her later years she discovered that her sister had also been doing secret war work. Until Argles died in 2023, they were the last two sisters who had been required to sign the Official Secrets Act. The sisters appeared live and on radio and TV,[1] relating stories of war time and co-publishing, in their nineties, a book titled Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War which became a best seller.[2]
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eight films about JeanArgles in the Veterans Video Archive. Argles was featured on the Radio 4 obituaries programme Last Word. "Jean Owtram". MBA Literary...
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Bunkle Brings It Off (1961) Argle series Argle's Mist (1956); US title, Curtain of Mist Argle's Causeway (1958) Argle's Oracle (1959) Other The Far Island...
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his present Majesty, as permits sir William Bishop, George Bishop, and Argles Bishop, to carry on the manufacture of Maidstone geneva; and also so much...
Archdeacon; Arcedeckne de ARCHIS; ARCIS – D'Arques; Arch; Dark de ARELA – Harela; Argles ARCUARIUS – Archer; Larcher de ARCUSBUS – de Arches; Bowes De ARENIS – Darens;...
following order of battle for the British: HMS Trusty (50) under Capt. George Argles, HMS Vestal (28) under Capt. Stephen Thomas Digby, with three sloops, and...
Captain Frank Whittle, Royal Air Force. Acting Group Captain John Greville Argles, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Acting Group Captain Lancelot Miller...
O., D.S.O., M.C. Major George Victor Sheridan Le Fanu. Martin Somervell Argles. Fiona, Mrs Henderson L.V.O. Group Captain Sir Gordon Hamish Martin Pirie...
Foreman, Machine Shop, Darlington, London & North Eastern Railway Company. Jean Sarah Malloy, Sergeant-in-charge, Women Police, Glasgow. Harold Stocks Marsden...
Andrews, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade. Gerard Marsham Argles. For political services in the Wrekin. Kenneth Samuel Arnold, Director and...
Laboratory of the Government Chemist, Ministry of Technology. Malcolm Argles Frost, Head of Transcription Service, British Broadcasting Corporation....
Resources, Uganda. Military Division Royal Navy Commodore Lionel William Lendon Argles, DSC. Captain Eric Cutts Beard. Captain Hugo Hastings Bracken. Commodore...
Deputy Conservator of Forests, Sarawak, Malaysia. John Denison Kingston Argles, British Council Regional Representative, Madras, South India. Kenneth Myer...
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