100-year-old former Wren Dorothea recalls ‘fighting spirit' of Second World War
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One of the last surviving Wrens who fought in the Second World War has told how she put cardboard in her shoes so she was tall enough to join the service.
Dorothea Barron, aged 100, said she was 'dying to get involved' in the war effort, joining the Women's Royal Naval Service after leaving school, serving at a base at HMS Hopetoun in Port Edgar, near Edinburgh, as a visual signaller.
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