Diagonal Rhythm on Black

A woman of intellect and discerning taste, the Hon. Moyra Campbell (1924-2024) was a member of the highly secret Y-Service during the Second World War. Known as ‘Wrens’, she was one of a group of women who intercepted German VHF voice messages for the principal centre of Allied code-breaking, Bletchley Park. Born in 1924, she was just fifteen when the war broke out and volunteered for the Women’s Royal Naval Service when she was able. Answering a call for German speakers, her work involved passing intelligence to naval operational centres and forwarding coded messages for decryption. Every staff member working with Bletchley Park had to sign the Official Secrets Act, and even after the secrets were made public, her family describe how she rarely spoke about the role. Following the war, she lived a vibrant life in Edinburgh and London, working for Count Robert-Jean de Vogüé, director of Moët et Chandon. Her niece remembers Campbell’s vivacious spirit, a lady who ‘lived life on her own terms’, staying up and talking with guests well after midnight and hunting in Scotland into her later years.