Marjorie Elizabeth Drinkwater

From Joyce Jay we know that she was recruited alongside another women called Marjorie - and she thought her surname was Drinkwater. She was a friend of her husband's sister

Marjorie Drinkwater was the wife of John Drinkwater, a Chartered surveyor for Rochford Rural District Council and worked with the ARP Rescue and Decontamination Centre. This may be how Marjorie was recruited as he would have known Donald Tanton, a key member of the Special Duties network in the Hockley area who was a surveyor for a large local estate agents..

Without additional confirmation, this identification can only be speculative, but it appears she is a likely candidate to be the other women. The two women met at an underground hideout in Gusted Hall Woods and signed the Official Secrets Act and were told what their role would be. They practiced carrying messages by moonlight to and from a "dead letter drop" in a tree stump with a rotating top.

Marjorie had three children, John in 1938 in Rochford, Michael in 1940 in her home district of Ulverston, Lancashire and Anne in 1946.