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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.
Roll of Honour: List of the men and women who worked at Bletchley Park and the Out Stations during WW2, archived from the original on 18 May 2011; Bletchley Park—Virtual Tour by Tony Sale; The National Museum of Computing (based at Bletchley Park) The RSGB National Radio Centre (based at Bletchley Park)
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 ...
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]
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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.
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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 ...