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Move Aside Kate Winslet — Ere’s our Mona Audrey!

My mum was born to Queenie and Alf Wright at Liverpool.

Mum was named Mona Audrey Wright and her tale is something real movies are made of.

I do not know how the Wright family came to settle in Derby but they did and it is from here that mum’s story gets very interesting, for my mum Mona Audrey’s job during WW2 was ‘hush-hush’ work.

Mona joined the WAF and I know she was at one time with Sir John Cockcroft’s radar project but ended the war in Belgium debriefing German officers.

In between I believe there was a spell at Bletchley Park where the Enigma decoding work was carried out. Whether she was a part of this project I do not know but as she was only one of two missing women from a Bletchley reunion back in the late 1980’s or early ‘90s, I suspect our Mona Audrey had played her part in Enigma.

Mum died in South Africa of a heart attack. Two days before her sudden death I again asked what she did during the war. “Hush hush work” came back the reply.

To her everlasting credit, she never wavered from the official line because as she put it, “I signed the Official Secrets Act and I am not allowed to tell you!”.

Mona Audrey Wright — one helluva woman and what a story her WW2 years must have been.

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