'It was mum's lifelong secret' : Second World War codebreaker dies

Jan 01, 2015

'It was mum's lifelong secret' : Second World War codebreaker dies, aged 
91
    
    By Mike Blackburn

Tributes have been paid to Harriet Jackson - an operative at Churchill's 
war-winning Bletchley Park secret intelligence service

A codebreaker who played her part in helping save thousands of lives and 
shorten the Second World War has died, aged 91.

Harriet Jackson, from Middlesbrough, was a secret operative at Bletchley 
Park at the height of the Second World War - helping crack intercepted 
German messages.

But until her family watched the ‘Station X’ documentary series in the 
late 1990’s they had absolutely no idea of Harriet’s top secret past.

“She was a very private person, very quiet,” said her daughter and only 
child, Sandra Graham, 66, from Linthorpe.

“We don’t think my dad Noel even knew until the 1990s when it all came 
out. It was a lifelong secret.

“My mum’s one regret was that her dad didn’t know - he would have been so 
proud.

“With her having dementia for the last few years if we hadn’t found out 
about Bletchley Park when we did we never would have known.”.../snip/


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