Kathleen Godfrey

Kathleen Margaret Godfrey (married names Kinmonth and Warren; 30 October 1922 – 19 October 2015)^[1] was a British Women's Auxiliary Air Force officer who served in two highly secretive roles during the Second World War. She worked firstly as a radio operator for radar at Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, and secondly at Hut 3 of Bletchley Park working to extract intelligence from cracked Enigma ciphers.^[2]

Family

Her father was John Henry Godfrey, a Royal Navy officer on whom Ian Fleming is said to have based James Bond's boss "M".^[3] Godfrey kept her war work secret from her father, even though he was the Director of Naval Intelligence.^[4] Her mother was Bertha Margaret Godfrey (née Hope), one of the first women to go to Cambridge University and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's niece.^[1][5][6] Kathleen's younger sister Christina Gibb was a peace activist in New Zealand.^[7]