Keith Batey
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.
literature
- Francis Harry Hinsley , Alan Stripp: Codebreakers - The inside story of Bletchley Park . Oxford University Press, Reading, Berkshire 1993. ISBN 0-19-280132-5
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore : Enigma - The battle for the code . Cassell Military Paperbacks, London 2004. ISBN 0-304-36662-5
Web links
- Keith Batey in the honor roll (Roll of Honor) of Bletchley Park
- Keith Batey article in The Telegraph, September 2, 2010, (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Alasdair Steven: Keith Batey, Mathematician and Bletchley code-breaker. Article in The Scotsman , September 6, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- ^ 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
- ^ Hugh Sebag-Montefiore: Enigma - The battle for the code . Cassell Military Paperbacks, London 2004, p. 119. ISBN 0-304-36662-5
- ↑ Keith Batey article in The Telegraph, September 2, 2010, (English). Retrieved June 8, 2011.
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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 |