Mom left her home of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and travelled to London, England, to join the WAAFs as a teenager. She survived both the bombing of Belfast and the blitz in London. She spent her Air Force career as a decoder at Bletchly Park and, true to her war time promise, never spoke of her work. After the war, she was stationed in Singapore. It was a mere flip of a coin that determined whether she would be stationed in Singapore or Australia. While in Singapore, she was assigned to be a military witness to the war crime trials that took place during the war. She returned to Belfast post 1948, where she met my Dad, WC Blathwayt, RCN. She accompanied him to Canada, and they were married for 55 yrs.