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Joan Potts, WAAF who served with Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain – obituary
She worked in the filter room, where inputs from radar units, Royal Observer Corps and patrols were analysed and passed to the plotting room
Joan Potts
Joan Potts, who has died aged 102, was an early volunteer for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in the Second World War; she served in a Fighter Command operations room during the Battle of Britain, before being commissioned and training others in fighter control.
Born Winifred Joan Bishop on November 7 1918 in Winchester, she attended Palmers Green High School. In June 1940 she enlisted in the WAAF as a special duties clerk, the trade name used for those serving in a Fighter Command control room and a highly classified role at the time.
“We rub along,” he said. Gwyn, now 98, first met her husband to be when she was nannying her brother’s children in Waimate and Don lived around the corner. The couple’s youngest daughter Donette Fargher said the family story is that they met on the street corner.
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Don and Gwen Johns married at Chalmers Church in Timaru on February 16, 1946. They kept in touch when Don served as a jeep driver in North Africa and Italy during the war while Gwyn was in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) feeding personnel at the Wigram Air Force base in Christchurch. They became engaged on his return in 1945.
Noor Inayat Khan: the Muslim princess and British spy who fought against the Nazis
Meet the Muslim secret agent who worked undercover in one of the most dangerous areas during the Second World War The Tempest
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Noor Inayat Khan was a British spy in the Second World War, sent into France by Winston Churchill’s secret Special Operations Executive (SOE) but was later betrayed, captured, and executed by the Nazis. The story of Noor Inayat Khan – a descendant of 18th-century Muslim ruler Tipu Sultan – is a remarkable one.