Shrewsbury war hero, Rose Davies, has died aged 107.
A radar operator during the Second World War, Rose was awarded France's highest honour for her work. Later in life, Rose became a befriending volunteer for Omega, an organisation dedicated to reducing social isolation and loneliness.
Credit: Royal Air Force
A radar operator during the Second World War, Rose was awarded France's highest honour for her work. Later in life, Rose became a befriending volunteer for Omega, an organisation dedicated to reducing social isolation and loneliness.
Credit: Royal Air Force
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00:00 I'm proud to have been part of it, but as I say, I always feel insignificant.
00:09 The role we all played was in comparison to what those chaps were doing.
00:16 We were just sitting in a comfortable, well, sort of comfortable, upstairs room.
00:24 And they were the ones risking their lives, and they must have all known that that was what they were doing.
00:33 It got absolutely full of sea-going craft of all shapes and sizes, little boats and bigger...
00:47 We didn't know the detail, we didn't know where they were going or what the thing was, but we knew it was something very important.
00:57 We couldn't help but keep thinking about the lads themselves, and boats we were watching, men we were thinking of.
01:08 The next day we knew more from generally, everybody knowing.
01:18 We were all sad, that's what you can say.
01:23 It was the knowledge that you'd watched boats and little ships going, and that the chaps in it weren't coming back.
01:36 It was very difficult to look ahead, because we didn't know what was going to happen.
01:42 Though of course we all said we were definitely going to win this war, without any knowledge to go by.
01:54 We were not taken into the Grand Fiddle Exarchey, but well, we were British, I mean, we couldn't lose the war.
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