One of the last of Bletchley Park's quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at
101
Tip-lipped for 30 years before becoming an 'unrivaled advocate' for
the site
Obit Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking
Bletchley Park facility in England during the Second World War, has
died at the age of 101.
...
She was so good at it that she was one of the few Bletchley workers to
be sent to work at the Pentagon in Washington DC. After taking a
Sunderland flying boat across the Atlantic she spent six months in the
city, enjoying both the work and the relative freedom before returning
home.
Yet when she began trying to get a job after the war was over, there
was a problem - she couldn't tell anyone (not even her parents) what
she'd been doing, since the work was classified under the Official
Secrets Act, as she recounts below.
Luckily a fellow Bletchley alumnus was the headmaster of Ludlow
Grammar School near her home, and he gave her a job with no questions
asked. She worked there as a secretary until marrying.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/bletchley_webb_obituary/?td=rt-3a
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