Plaque to honour WW2 codebreaker John Herivel
A blue plaque to honour a World War Two codebreaker will be unveiled at Methodist College Belfast on Friday.
The Bletchley Park work helped to decipher key intelligence messages to inform the allies' war planning.The work at Bletchley Park was kept secret for decades but an official history of British intelligence in the war would later state it had shortened the conflict by two to four years and without it the outcome would have been uncertain.
The organisation's chairman, Chris Spurr, said John Herivel, who died aged 92 in 2011, was an insightful mathematician who discovered a way of breaking the Enigma code by hand. Mr Herivel was a pupil at Methodist College between 1924 and 1936 and had lived at Malone Avenue in the city.Capturing war-time memories, before it is too late
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