When her child was about a year old, we believe Jean was called up to join the Intelligence Corps or Special Operations (SOE); this would have been from about 1943 to 1945, but official records have not yet been located. She was reluctant to talk about her war time activities, but snippets of information have been revealed over the years that tell of an exceptional talent including: • being parachuted into France on or even before D Day in June 1944; • working from the attic of a farm house, sitting on a smelly cheese, to help direct the naval gun fire onto the beach positions for D Day; • shooting a German with his own gun • hiding from the Germans up a chimney in another farmhouse with several hams; • being in a landing craft that was torpedoed on the way back to England; • taking photographs of Winston Churchill • being at Belsen in April 1945, when the camp was liberated by British and Canadian troops. • being in Antwerp, possibly on leave after Belsen Jean talked to few people about her war experiences; there is nothing definite about this history or her exploits but the research will continue. IF you have any information that would help, please contact me - her daughter on the email address in my profile