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This is a list of people associated with Bletchley Park, the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War, notable either for their achievements there or elsewhere. Work at or for Bletchley Park is given first, followed by achievements elsewhere in parentheses.
Webb was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours "for services to remembering and promoting the work of Bletchley Park." [10] [11] In 2021, Webb's work at Bletchley Park was recognized by the government of France, with her appointment as Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion ...
Valentine is commemorated on the Bletchley Park Roll of Honour, which contains a digital copy of her service certificate and a short memoir. [9] She featured on a St Vincent and Grenadines stamp commemorating the 60th Anniversary of D-Day in 2004. [20]
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied ... Roll of Honour: ...
About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. [1] While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in other important areas, including as operators of cryptographic and communications machinery ...
Stuart Milner-Barry, "Hut 6: Early days", pp. 89–99 in Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park, edited by F. H. Hinsley, and Alan Stripp, Oxford University Press, 2003; Russell-Jones, Mair and Gethin (2014). My Secret Life in Hut Six: One woman’s experiences at Bletchley Park. Oxford, UK: Lion Hudson. ISBN 978 0 7459 5664 0.
[6] [7] At Bletchley his technical expertise allowed him to salvage a waterlogged codebook which helped crack the Enigma code. [6] [8] Genista McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh is Tandy's daughter by his second wife Maire McDermott. He had five children in total. [1] Tandy's papers are held at the Natural History Museum. [9]
For her service, she is listed in the Roll of Honour at Bletchley Park and commemorated on the Codebreakers Wall. [3] Marion had left Bletchley earlier to return home to nurse her sick mother, who was dying of tuberculosis. Having signed the Official Secrets Act, she never told her family details of her work during the war.