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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ken Harris

Letter: Patricia Brown obituary

Patricia Brown (nee Bartley) as a young woman at Bletchley Park during the second world war
Patricia Brown (nee Bartley) as a young woman at Bletchley Park during the second world war Photograph: Andrew Brown (but don't print it)

As the chair of the Swanbourne village history group, I was interested to read the obituary of the Bletchley Park codebreaker Patricia Brown. While the piece noted that she shared a flat with the actor Deborah Kerr, it is also worth mentioning that Deborah married Patricia’s younger brother, Anthony, or Tony Bartley, as he was known, who was a second world war fighter ace, in 1945. It would have been through her brother that Patricia had come to know Deborah, whom he had met through his own contacts within the film industry.

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