Elizabeth Eleanor Still

BUCKLEBURY HISTORY GROUP

Whilst researching Bucklebury during WWII, our group discovered that there were local ladies who had been involved with Bletchley Park.  Elizabeth Still was one of these ladies.  Her story follows: 

ELIZABETH ELEANOR STILL

16th September 1922 – 26th October 2007

Elizabeth was born in Berlin, Germany 16th September 1922, daughter of Stephen Kurt Westmann and Marianne Goldschmidt.  She had a brother, Ernest L.T. Westmann born in 1931 in Berlin, Germany.  The family moved to London in 1933 and became Naturalized Britons.

Stephen Westmann was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and, as he was a medical doctor, he was therefore exempt from internment during the war (certificate dated 21.11.39).  He also said he had no desire to be repatriated. 

In 1940 Elizabeth joined the W.A.A.F. and soon discovered that German-speakers were needed in the Y-Service. This was a highly secret arm of the intelligence service whose job was to listen to the pilots of German bomber aircraft and relay their movements to Bletchley Park.

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