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Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943) was a British classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War.
Scholar and codebreaker Dilly Knox, whose work led to the decryption of over 140,000 messages of Germany’s military intelligence, would stroll along the shores of the lake, cup of tea in hand.
Jan 25, 2015 · Leading male codebreaker Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox was an eccentric classics scholar - an expert in ancient Papyrus. He specifically requested an all-female team to work with, who were nicknamed...
Oct 28, 2017 · But Dilly Knox is as least as important in the world of codebreaking as Alan Turing. He’s a real Brummie hero, whose vital contribution to winning the Second World War has been lost in history.
Knox was 55 years old at the outbreak of World War Two and, during that summer, had been one of the hand-picked number of brilliant intellectuals, expert linguists, retired classics masters, crossword inclined W.R.N.S., and other young soldiers of high intellect recruited to work at the newly acquired top secret codebreaking establishment at ...
Apr 4, 2021 · Dilly Knox was named the Chief Cryptographer of Bletchley Park, but by then he was seriously ill with cancer. He was honoured by appointment to C.M.G (Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George) and died at home on February 27 1943.
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Bletchley Park is now internationally famous as the home of the code-breakers during World War Two. But the endeavours of Alan Turing, Dilly Knox and their colleagues were so top secret that we are only now beginning to learn how they really lived day-to-day in this magnificent house, where – beh...
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