Unsung hero, 104, who drew up D-Day maps honoured
"A ship coming in from England would try to identify where things were and be able to see things like churches, stations - anything visible from the distance," she said."I had to try and arrange something that would help and they provided me with an office entirely to myself. "I found it enjoyable - I suppose you can concentrate more when you're on your own."She said at the time, it was "impossible" to know whether her work had helped the invasion or not.
Last year the French president Emmanuel Macron awarded her with the Légion d'honneur for her service - the highest French Order of Merit for Military and civil merits.During the war she worked in the War office in Whitehall.She made the maps which were then delivered to Syrencot House where Lieutenant- General "Boy" Browning and other generals would use them to see what the shore looked like.
Her son Martin Lamb, also attended the celebration in Salisbury and said he was "extremely proud" of his mother."As a family we didn't know anything about it," he said.
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