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Former British volunteer helped decode wartime German messages - The Toronto Observer
The loss of a personal friend pushed Theo Hopkinson to volunteer in the Second World War. At the time she lived in Cardiff, Wales, where German aircraft regularly bombed the city docks. "One day, when I was at school, I was sent home to see why one of the girls in my class hadn't come (to class)," Hopkinson said. "I walked to her house and bodies were being brought out." During the aerial raid, bombs fell on her classmate’s house and exploded. Then only 17, Theo decided to volunteer for the military.
Varad Mehta