OBITUARY : John Burrows - Bletchley code-breaker who became Chief Inspector of Schools

24 Sep 2008

OBITUARY : John Burrows
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Bletchley code-breaker who became Chief Inspector of Schools.

John Burrows, who died on August 28 aged 96, was a Japanese military 
expert at Bletchley Park, the wartime code-breaking organisation, and went 
on to become Chief Inspector of Schools during the 1970s.

Before being sent to Bletchley, Burrows had been a sergeant on the 
intelligence staff at Singapore and was witness to the shambles of the 
British defence of Malaya during the Japanese invasion, which coincided 
with the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941..../snip/


....After the fall of Singapore Burrows was sent to Bletchley Park, where 
new Japanese sections were hurriedly being set up. Eventually there were 
so many sections dealing with different aspects of Japanese material that 
the main corridor in Block F, where most were based, became known as "the 
Burma Road", after the key 700-mile link over the mountains between China 
and Burma.

Burrows had by this stage received a commission, and was one of a number 
of captains in charge of a section which analysed decrypted material from 
the Far East and Pacific theatre. The work involved in-depth analysis of 
the locations of Japanese units and personnel and writing reports 
detailing what was happening in south-east Asia...../snip/


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