Christian in her Cornwall garden
Christian Lamb helped plan D-Day. Now, at 101, Britain’s oldest surviving Wren, leaves a beloved garden
There is something about big, wide, busy rivers that makes one long to live beside them. During the Second World War, I had the luck to work down near East Tilbury, where Henry VIII built blockhouses on both banks.
At Coalhouse Fort, one of these blockhouses, I worked as a 20-year-old Leading Wren – a member of the Women’s Royal Naval Service. I’d given up a place at Oxford in 1939 to become a Wren.
