OBITUARY : Gwen Hollington

June 25 2014

OBITUARY : Gwen Hollington
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A high achiever who was fluent in German, Gwen Hollington was recruited for
the Bletchley Park enemy communications decryption centre after graduating
from Cambridge. She was assigned to the naval section in Hut 4, Block A,
receiving messages from the code-breaking nerve centre in Hut 8. It fell to
her to translate them from German and help to maintain a comprehensive
database of enemy communications.

Eleanor Gwendoline Paxton was born in 1919. She won a scholarship to Roedean
School and excelled at sport. In 1938 Cambridge accepted her to read modern
and medieval languages at Girton College...../snip/


http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4130225.ece

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