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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;
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)
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 ...
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.
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]
Margaret Alice Rock (7 July 1903 – 26 August 1983) was one of the women mathematicians who worked in Bletchley Park during World War II. [1] With her maths skills and education, Rock was able to decrypt messages encrypted by the Enigma machine used by the German Army.
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.