Inspirational Bletchley codebreaker dies at 101

By Stephanie Wareham

Charlotte "Betty" Webb MBE, one of the last surviving heroes from Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, died on Monday, the Women's Royal Army Corps Association said. Betty started out at the centre of Allied codebreaking in World War Two as a secretary, which she said was "pretty boring but had to be done" until she moved into deciphering key enemy communications in Block F.
She was 18 and studying at a domestic science college near Shrewsbury in Shropshire when she and others on her course had decided "we ought to be serving our country rather than making sausage rolls".
Betty worked at Bletchley Park as a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service from 1941 to 1945, indexing German messages and paraphrasing Japanese signals. She later deciphered Japanese messages at The Pentagon in the US, during the Pacific War, and was awarded France's highest distinct...

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