Keith Batey

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In this building (English: The Cottage ) in Bletchley Park Keith Batey worked with Mavis Lever and Dilly Knox on the deciphering of the Enigma

John Keith Batey (born July 4, 1919 in Longmoor, Cumberland , † August 28, 2010 in Oxfordshire ) was a British cryptanalyst . During the Second World War he played a major role in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) in Bletchley Park , England , the military service that successfully deciphered German communications contributed to the breakage of the German rotor key machine Enigma .

Bletchley Park

Keith Batey was recruited from Trinity College in Cambridge by Gordon Welchman in 1940 to join the GC&CS in Bletchley Park (BP), 70 km north-west of London . There he initially worked in the Hut 6 , i.e. the organizational unit of BP, which, under the direction of Welchman and his deputy Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander , dealt with the deciphering of the radio messages encrypted by the German army and the air force with the Enigma I. He later moved to Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox , a neighboring organizational unit in BP that dealt specifically with a variant of the German key machine , namely the Abwehr Enigma . There he met his colleague Mavis Lever , who, like him, was working on deciphering the Abwehr Enigma. They married in November 1942 and remained a couple until his death at the age of 91. He leaves behind his wife Mavis, a son and two daughters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alasdair Steven: Keith Batey, Mathematician and Bletchley code-breaker. Article in The Scotsman , September 6, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  2. ^ Gordon Welchman: The Hut Six Story - Breaking the Enigma Codes . Allen Lane, London 1982; Cleobury Mortimer M&M, Baldwin Shropshire 2000, p. 11. ISBN 0-947712-34-8
  3. ^ Hugh Sebag-Montefiore: Enigma - The battle for the code . Cassell Military Paperbacks, London 2004, p. 119. ISBN 0-304-36662-5
  4. ↑ Keith Batey article in The Telegraph, September 2, 2010, (English). Retrieved June 8, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Batey, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Batey, John Keith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cryptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Longmoor, Cumberland
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 2010
Place of death Oxfordshire