Allan, no. Birth certificates are not linked in any way to an adoption certificate, only the registrar general can link them and will only do that through official channels (an adoption intermediary).
What I think has happened here is this (I have a friend who was adopted because of the same circumstances, war time birth, husband away, returned home and insisted the boy was adopted out).
So, Carol Ann was born to a married woman, Mrs Ellis, during the war. She registered the child as if it was her husband's. At some point Carol Ann was put up for adoption but before that could happen, Mr Ellis's name was removed from the certificate because he could prove he was not Carol's father. Then Carol was legally adopted and given an adoption certificate with her new identity - this adoption certificate stands as a birth certificate for all intents and purposes, but it isn't actually a birth certificate so it doesn't appear in the birth records. There is a separate adoption certificate register held by the GRO but again, you won't find a link to the birth registers.
If she is hoping to find the birth father's name, that is only likely to be in the adoption file. As a near relative of the adopted person, she is entitled to some information from the adoption file but that is not free and is quite expensive. And his name might not be there!
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