![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/the-wwii-codebreaker-who-still-wont-give-secrets-away/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/127608185_aileen_majorie_veteranclips_frame_5454.png&description=Marjorie Lamb enjoyed the covert nature of her work during World War TwoAs an officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service Marjorie Lamb learned to decode messages in the Highlands of Scotland before being posted to Egypt.But despite the passage of time Ms Lamb, 102, vowed she would still never give any secrets away.She told BBC Scotland: "I don't think I would. It's just one of those things." The great grandmother also recalled the excitement of the early days of World War Two, when she didn't even have a proper uniform. Ms Lamb, who lives in East Renfrewshire, was in her late teens when the conflict broke out in 1939.She said: "I think in the beginning we thought it was nothing to do with us."We were all youngsters, about 17 or 18, and, ok, it was hard on everybody else but we were alright."The mother-of-one then told how she started to see women in uniform and decided to join the Wrens.She joked: "I thought the outfit was better than any of the ones I had."Ms Lamb, who is originally from Epsom, Surrey, said: "It was quite exciting really but I did not have a uniform."There were not any on the go and it was just a case of doing up whatever you had got to make it look as if you were in the Navy."It was just any ordinary skirt. There were not enough uniforms to go round at all."So we would wear the plainest one we had, which they confirmed was ok."In the early years of the war she was told she had been promoted to officer and would be sent to the Highlands for training.She joked: "To begin with I had never heard of Invergordon having come from the south of England."But as chance would have it the navy officer who was sent to meet her at the train station, Jimmy Lamb, would later become her husband.Ms Lamb met her husband, Jimmy, after he was sent to escort her from her train after it arrived in the HighlandsIn the Highlands Ms Lamb was also introduced to coding.She recalled: "You were made an officer because you could do these things ably and properly and we were all){kind=link}
As an officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Service Marjorie Lamb learned to decode messages in the Highlands of Scotland before being posted to Egypt.
But despite the passage of time Ms Lamb, 102, vowed she would still never give any secrets away.
She told BBC Scotland: “I don’t think I would. It’s just one of those things.”
The great grandmother also recalled the excitement of the early days of World War Two, when she didn’t even have a proper uniform.
Ms Lamb, who lives in East Renfrewshire, was in her late teens when the conflict broke out in 1939.