Anne Radcliffe served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). She was a section controller, stationed at RAF Uxbridge, which was responsible for RAF Group 11 of Fighter Command. Her husband, Stanley Wynne-Eaton, was flying a Sunderland flying boat when it was shot down by a Ju 88 over the Bay of Biscay in 1942. He was killed and his body could not be recovered.



In late 1944, she met Ed Nebinger at the Jules Club in London and although they both sensed a connection between them, they only cautiously began to date. Ed remembers: 'I began to talk of marriage, but she said "No, not yet; I feel it too, but we scarcely know one another and this is wartime." She paused, then added, "I do not want to go through that again. We need to finish our jobs, keep our minds on staying alive, and get this damned war over with first."'



Anne invited Ed to visit her parents at Wormley in mid-February 1945. The visit went well and both she and Ed felt closer than ever to one another.



They were not to see each other again. Anne was killed when a V-2 rocket struck Smithfield Market on 8 March 1945. There was a special RAF memorial ceremony in the chapel at Uxbridge. Ed was there, sitting alongside Anne's parents. Ed writes 'the chapel was packed with RAF personnel - a sea of blue, a testimony to the respect with which Anne was held by her fellow officers. There was no coffin, no remains, only the memory of a special person.'