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Ione Roseveare (née Katherine Ione Jay) (9 November 1920, Weobley – 24 September 2010, Uppingham) was a Temporary Junior Administrative Officer at Hut 6, Bletchley Park. She met her husband
Bob Roseveare Robert Arthur (Bob) Roseveare (23 May 1923 – 8 December 2004) was an English codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II and later a schoolteacher. He was born at Repton, Derbyshire where his father, Sir Martin Roseveare, taught at Rept ...
while working there. Ione was studying for licentiate of the
Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of ...
in Bristol in 1941. However she was evacuated to
Wells, Somerset Wells () is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, located on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, south-east of Weston-super-Mare, south-west of Bath and south of Bristol. Although the population recorde ...
. Here she was interviewed by Gordon Welchman, who was recruiting for Bletchley Park. In 2005 she published her memoirs: ''Things I Remember''.


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