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100-year-old WW2 veteran posted in Scotland played key role in defeating Nazis

Dorothea Barron spent much of the war in Scotland, being stationed at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth, Rosyth in Fife, Aberdeen and Campbeltown.

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