The Hon Moyra Jean Campbell, who died 18 June, 2024, aged 99, was a scion of the Barons Stratheden.
Moyra was one of the last Wrens of the highly secret Y-Service who in the Second World War listened to German VHF voice messages in the North Sea and fed coded HF transmissions to Bletchley Park...Fluent in German, she listened to enemy VHF voice messages in the North Sea, and fed coded HF transmissions to Bletchley Park ...in later years she worked for Moët et Chandon.
She was born 14 July, 1924, the eldest of the three daughters of the 4th Baron Stratheden, CBE, JP (1899-1981), and his first wife the former Jean Helen St Clair Anstruther-Gray, CBE (1901-1956), scion of the Anstruther baronets. She had younger sisters, (2) the Hon Clayre Campbell (1927-2015), who was wife of (1) the Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley, PC, scion of the Viscount Ridley (he was later Baron Ridley of Liddesdale 1929-1993), a Conservative MP and government minister, and (2) Capt Lord Richard Charles Percy (1921-89), 3rd son of the 8th Duke of Northumberland; and (2) the Hon Fiona Campbell (born 4 Feb, 1932).
She was unmarried.
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