The funeral has taken place of a centenarian who helped translate German intelligence codes at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.

Sybille Higginson was 101 when she passed away at Acacia House Care Home in Tenterden on February 18.

She had spent most of her adult life living in Tunbridge Wells and her funeral at the Kent and Sussex Crematorium in Tunbridge Wells was attended by family and friends.

The celebrant reviewed Mrs Higginson's active and varied life including her time as a Wren and her service in MI6.

A tribute written by her daughter Celia, the founder and headmistress of the RightHope School, in Nongstoin in India was read by her niece Professor Judith Rowbotham.

It described Mrs Higginson as a woman of integrity, style and passion, and one who had brought her daughter up to have the courage to go and create a new life for herself in a new country where she knew no one.

Professor Rowbotham also talked of how important Mrs Higginson had been to her nieces and their children - that she had been a role model for them - a woman of firm opinions, firmly voiced, with at times even embarrassing honesty, but having a strong sense of humour as well as of duty.

At school, the deceased had been good friends with actress Judy Campbell (Jane Birkin's mother) and the service ended with a recording of Judy Campbell singing A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, which had held special memories for Mrs Higginson.

For a complete obituary of Sybille Higginson, click here.

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