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University of Cambridge, 4 Mill Ln, Cambridge CB2 1RZ
Bletchley Park, 30 Roche Gardens, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6BN
3 High St, Sutton, Ely CB6 2RB, UK
Noel Currer-Briggs (21 November 1919 near Leeds - 20 September 2004 in Sutton-in-the-Isle, East Cambridgeshire)[1] worked as acryptanalyst in the central military office Bletchley Park, where during the Second World War the radio messages encrypted by the German military have been deciphered. Bletchley Park is located about 70 km northwest of London.
Noel was educated at Bryanston School as a boy before continuing his education at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1938. Shortly thereafter,World War II broke out. The young Currer-Briggs was recruited as a codebreaker by Bletchley Park because of his linguistic skills. There he worked from 1942 until the end of the war in 1945 on the deciphering of hand key procedures of the Wehrmacht and for a short time in 1942 also on the cryptanalysis of the Enigma, the most widely used German machine key at the time. The Allied forces owe it to him and his colleagues the success of the successful invasion of Sicily (codename: "Operation Husky"). Important intelligence information about the German battle line-up there and in Tunisia was obtained by the Allies via modified Playfair ciphers (double box keys) of the Wehrmacht broken by Noel Currer-Briggs. [2] In his later years, Currer-Briggs also worked as a genealogist and historian and wrote numerous books on the subject. He died after a short illness at his home in Sutton-in-the-Isle, Cambridgeshire, at the age of 84.
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