LAST Summer, 101-year-old Betty Webb attended an event at the Violette Szabo museum in Wormelow to mark the 80th anniversary of the Carve Her Name With Pride French Resistance agent being arrested by German officers.

Betty, who was invited merely as a guest and also worked at the Pentagon at the end of the war, was persuaded to talk about her early life being a code breaker at Bletchley Park – and stole the show with her anecdotes of being a vital cog in the Allies' war machine.

But sadly the Woman’s Royal Army Corps Association confirmed that Charlotte ‘Betty’ Webb MBE had died earlier this week.

In tribute Rosemary Rigby, the owner of the museum dedicated to Violette Szabo – in the house where the SOE agent used to start with her uncle – said of Betty: “She was so lively and captivated the crowd who had attended the museum.

“It wasn’t planned, but she spoke for a long time, and this was followed up with a very interesting question and answer session.

“We were mesmerised by her tales, nothing phased her. I’d never met anyone like her. I’m so sorry she has gone. She looked so well last summer.”

Iain Standen, Bletchley Park Trust’s chief executive, said Mrs Webb will not only be remembered for her work but also for her efforts to ensure that the story of what she and her colleagues achieved is not forgotten.

He added: "Betty's passion for preserving the history and legacy of Bletchley Park has undoubtedly inspired many people to engage with the story and visit the site.”

Betty enlightened the Wormelow audience by speaking about her time working at Bletchley and explained that she was translating and paraphrasing foreign messages between 1941 and 1945, but admitted she didn’t do Morse code.

She said that her mother had taught her to speak German as a child and when she was first taken to her posting at Bletchley Park, she remembered being told to read the Official Secrets Act and recalled: "I realised that from then on there was no way that I was going to be able to tell even my parents where I was and what I was doing.

“I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Bletchley, as we analysed German communications and I now realise that I was part of fantastic team.

“I didn’t realise the significance of what we did until we started having reunions and then we understood how important it all was.

“After the war I flew to Ireland in a Sunderland Flying boat before heading to the States and working at the Pentagon, doing much the same job as I had done at Bletchley.

“It didn’t feel that this was a great privilege at the time, however I did enjoy the food in America, because they were not subjected to rations.”

Betty revealed that she used to see computer boffin Alan Turing arriving at work on his bicycle wearing his gas mask.

After the war Betty took up a secretarial post at a school in Shropshire and worked alongside a head teacher, who had also worked at Bletchley.