Faces of Freedom

Faces of Freedom


The Second World War Series - Elsa Lessard and the Battle of the Atlantic

October 21, 2020

Elsa Lessard enlisted in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service, commonly known as the WRENs, in 1943. During the Second World War she served in a secret communications station where she helped intercept messages from German U-boats that were hunting Allied convoys in the North Atlantic.