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In 1918, Annie May Martin was a telegraphist working in France. Her role with the Women\\u2019s Army Auxiliary Corps was to pass messages in morse code between front line troops and London. In an archive interview, she looks back on her life as a signaller, why they were called the \\u2018blue and white angels,\\u2019 and remembers the hostility she experienced at the hands of French civilians. Her reflections are included in IWM\\u2019s Lives of the First World War, launched today to create a digital memorial to mark the lives of more than eight million people in WWI. Project Manager Melanie Donnelly joins Jane Garvey to talk about the scale of the task ahead.