Eveline Suzanne (Hood) Hohler (1917 - 2006)

Born 8 Jan 1917 in Marylebone, Greater London, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Arthur Frederick Hohler CMG — married 31 Oct 1945 in Westminster, London, England

Died 1 Aug 2006 at age 89 in Budock, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA

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Biography

Eveline was born in 1917. She was the daughter of Neville Hood and Eveline Broad. She passed away in 2006.

¶ She was working as a model in Paris when WW II broke out. Her father telegraphed money for tickets home telling her to get out now.

¶ When the Battle of El Alamein was faught, she was working for the Foreign Office in Egypt. She was dating the Prince of Egypt. Her manager suggested that the optics were not good. She told him that if anything were going on, she would be dripping in jewels. The Prince liked to drive across the desert with the accelerator on the floor. He died when his car flipped over at high speed.

¶ When she returned to London, she found her flat had been flattened by German bombs. She worked in a bunker in London communicating with the French resistance. She was on night shift. When she arrived the evening of the fifth of June 1944 the day staff was leaving and they were talking and celebrating and even had a bottle of champagne. She had no clue why they were so happy. D-Day was supposed to be on the 5th but the weather was bad. She was in the basement sending out cables. Suddenly the word came that she had to send out messages to all the participants telling them the invasion was delayed. She protested that she could not type fast enough but the woman at the BBC told her to suck it up. So she went directly to the generals upstairs who told her that she could send the messages open (not in cipher).

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Sources

1. ↑ Birth Registration: "England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007"
   General Register Office; United Kingdom; Reference: Volume 1a, Page 851
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 8782 #45805246 (accessed 10 January 2022)
   Eveline B Hood birth Jan 1917 in Marylebone, London.
2. ↑ Marriage Registration: "England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005"
   General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 1a; Page: 1128
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 8753 #49248010 (accessed 10 January 2022)
   Eveline G Hood marriage in Oct 1945.
3. ↑ Passenger List: "UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960"
   The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 1194
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 1518 #25739634 (accessed 10 January 2022)
   Name: Evelyn Susanna Hood; Arrival Age: 24; Birth Date: abt 1917; Port of Departure: New York, New York, USA; Arrival Date: 18 Jul 1941; Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England; Ports of Voyage: New York; Ship Name: Westland; Shipping Line: Cunard White Star.
4. ↑ Passenger List: "UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960"
   The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; BT27 Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Outwards Passenger Lists; Reference Number: Series BT27-132840
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 2997 #145816850 (accessed 10 January 2022)
   Name: Eveline S Hood; Gender: Female; Departure Age: 24; Birth Date: abt 1917; Departure Date: 15 Mar 1941; Departure Port: England; Ship Name: Baltrover; Shipping Line: United Baltic Corpn; Destination Port: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Master: F Wells.

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