Английская Википедия:Catherine Caughey
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Catherine Mary Caughey Шаблон:Post-nominals (née Harvey, 8 December 1923 – 12 April 2008) used Colossus computers for codebreaking at Bletchley Park during World War II.[1][2]
Early life
Catherine Mary Harvey was born in Eldoret, Kenya, on 8 December 1923,[3] and spent her early life on an isolated farm there.[2] She was educated in England, at St Mary's School, Calne in Wiltshire, and Harcombe House Domestic Science School, in Dorset.[3]
World War II service
Harvey was called up for war service in 1943.[1] After thorough interviewing and testing, she was chosen to work as a "Wren" in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), allocated to "Special Duties X" at Bletchley Park. Here from early 1944, she worked in the "Newmanry" (named after Max Newman[4]) using the Colossus computers for deciphering German High Command messages.[5] Later she was responsible for the teleprinter room in the Newmanry, where Tunny (Lorenz cipher) messages were received from the main intercept station located in Kent.
Post-war life
After the war, Harvey attended Dorset House in Oxford, trained as an occupational therapist. Once qualified, she worked at a psychiatric hospital in Oxford.
In 1950, she married Ron Caughey in Oxford.[3] Ron Caughey was awarded a fellowship to work at a children’s hospital in Philadelphia, United States. The couple then moved to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1952, living first in Epsom and later in Remuera. They had a son and a daughter. In 1975, Catherine Caughey became a naturalised New Zealand citizen.[6]
Ron Caughey died in 1975 before secrecy around wartime work at Bletchley Park was lifted in the same year, 30 years after the end of World War II,[2] followed by the declassification of the 1945 General Report on Tunny in 2000.[7]
Caughey was active in the Girl Guides in New Zealand, serving on the national council and executive, and in 1976 she was appointed honorary vice president for the Auckland province.[3] In 1978, she founded the Auckland Multicultural Society, and served as its president. In the 1994 New Year Honours, Caughey was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community.[8]
In 1994, Caughey published the autobiographical book World Wanderer in the form of her diaries, which was approved by the British Ministry of Defence.[9] She also contributed to a chapter on bombes in The Turing Guide on Alan Turing that appeared posthumously in 2017.[10] She died in Auckland on 12 April 2008, and her body was cremated at Purewa Crematorium.[11]
Publications
- Шаблон:Cite book (autobiography)
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