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Audrey Ruth Briggs

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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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