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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 ...
Women made up the majority of the 10,000 people who worked at Bletchley Park. [1] The following is a list of women who worked at Bletchley Park. List. Helene Aldwinckle;
Ruth June Bourne (née Henry; born 1926) [1] [2] was one of the Women of Bletchley Park who was recruited to help win World War II against the Axis Powers from 1939–1945. [3] The Women of Bletchley Park were a secret team put together by the British government who were made to sign a Secrets Act confirming that they would not tell anyone about their work there.
Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE (née Clarke; 24 June 1917 – 4 September 1996) was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
Charlotte Elizabeth Webb MBE (née Vine-Stevens; born 13 May 1923) [1] is an English code breaker [2] who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II at the age of 18. [3] [4] [5] Starting in 1941 she joined the British Auxiliary Territorial Service. [6]
In 2009, the Labour government under Gordon Brown awarded the women who worked at Bletchley Park a Bletchley Badge. [3] [14] Davies name is on a brick in the wall at Bletchley Park honouring those who worked in connection with the place. [3] [15] June 2019, Davies was awarded the Légion d'honneur, Military, the highest order of merit in France ...
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.
Du Boisson joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (known as WRNS) during WWII and was stationed at the Newmanry sector of Bletchley Park, England. With others she operated code-breaking machines, such as the Tunny machine Heath Robinson. She was one of only four operators working with the Tunny but, to work efficiently, she had to learn how to ...