Tony was brought up during World War Two and was conscripted into the Army, aged 18, in July 1950. The Korean War had begun and, after training, he was dispatched there via Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. At the front the weather was cold enough to freeze weapons and several men got frostbite. He was terrified when he had to use a mine detector and relieved when the Royal Engineers took over this duty. Later his platoon was hit by mortar fire and took heavy losses. At the Battle of the Imjin River his unit, with tank support, attacked a Chinese held hill. He remembers a tank destroying a bunker at point blank range. Later he caught dysentery and spent time in a hospital. When he returned to duty the war had stabilised and, by the end of the conflict, he thought he had become a good soldier although always frightened of capture.

Marge Arbury was born in Cobham and at 19 years old she joined up to serve her country.  She completed three weeks of initial training at a training camp in Guildford, where she found out she was very good at Morse code, and because of this was selected to be a wireless operator. She was sent to the Isle of Man to be a Y operator. When she arrived she was required to sign the Official Secrets Act, Marge recalls that one person was sent home, as she had a German grandmother so wouldn’t be eligible for the role. She remembers the six months on the Isle of Man, learning how to understand Morse code, getting her ready for her new role as a wireless operator. In October 1943, she was sent to Harrogate, Forestmore, where she started to decipher German enigma messages. Marge never expected that she would be a spy when she first joined up, she thought she would be driving lorries! Her role as a wireless operator involved going through transmissions trying to find hidden Morse code messages.  She was responsible for covering messages coming out of Yugoslavia, from the German Army, Navy, and the Gestapo. All of the messages were passed on by motorbike to Station X, also known as Bletchley park. Whilst stationed in Harrogate, due to the secrecy of the role, people thought she wasn’t contributing anything, and townspeople didn’t treat her well. This couldn’t be further from the actual truth and the important work she was working. Marge stayed with the Y service until the very end of the war and was eventually demobbed in October 1946.