Audrey Ruth Briggs

Audrey Ruth Churchill (née Briggs) (1920–2005) was a cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.[1] She graduated in Modern Languages from Cambridge and, as an expert in German, worked as a member of the Z Watch, which translated the decrypted messages.[2][3][4][5][6]

She married Oliver Churchill in 1946 and her oldest son is Toby Churchill.

References

  1. Codebreakers – The inside story of Bletchley Park, edited by F. H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp, Oxford University Press
  2. Bletchley Park Roll of Honour
  3. Roland Oliver (2013), In the Realms of Gold, Routledge, pp. 35–38, ISBN 9781134571710
  4. Bletchley Park Research : Women Codebreakers
  5. Women Were Key to WWII Code-Breaking at Bletchley Park
  6. The Bletchley Girls Tessa Dunlop, Hodder & Stoughton,
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