Dorothea Barron, 100, said she swapped her school uniform for a naval uniform in 1943, despite being below the 5ft 3in minimum height.A 100-year-old veteran has described how she went “from school uniform into naval uniform” when she joined the Wrens to help defeat Nazi Germany during the Second World War.Growing up in London, Dorothea…

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