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Margaret Rock

She worked with Albert 'Dilly' Knox and Mavis Lever at Bletchley Park. One of only 3 skilled femaile cryptanalysts - Mavis Batey, Margaret Rock, Joan Clarke - hut 8 (Daily Mail article) She co-authored the "Batey, Batey, Rock and Twinn" paper. History of Adwehr Codebreaking. Mavis Batey, Keith Batey, Margaret Rock, ? Twinn

Sources: http://www.bletchleyparkresearch.co.uk/category/margaret-rock/ (talk page) "Dear Codebreaker" book https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Code-Breaker-Bletchley-Parachute/dp/0955716454 (talk page) The GDST and nominet links on the talk page are broken http://www.nominet.uk/blog-meeting-the-bletchley-women-an-honour-and-an-inspiration/

The first 2 links on the wikipedia page are broken 1 http://www.bletchleyparkresearch.co.uk/2013/06/14/dear-code-breaker-letters-to-margaret-rock/ 2 http://student.statsvet.uu.se/modules/kurser/visadokument.aspx?id=13750 http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:625771/FULLTEXT01.pdf "Gendering decryption - decrypting gender: The gender discourse of labour at Bletchley Park 1939-1945" 2013 MA thesis Annie Burman,

Uppsala University http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-201046 McKay 2010 p. 86-87 p 37 McKay 2010, p. 14; BPTA, Other people’s stories book six (2003), account by Joyce Thompson. Thompson gives Rock’s surname as Roth, but it is evident who she is referring to. Smith 2011, p. 160 McKay, Sinclair (2010), The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, Aurum Press: London Smith, Michael (2011), The Secrets of Station X, Biteback Publishing: London 3 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033674/Bletchley-Park-codebreaker-given-papers-telling-husband-did-working-her.html (wikipedia

page) - look for other newspapers who might have picked up this story

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/heritage/the-nice-loyal-girl-who-helped-us-crack-hitler-1-5265781 Important! Includes a photo! http://www.bletchleyparkresearch.co.uk/dear-code-breaker-letters-to-margaret-rock/ Blog page, photo of Margaret on school honour roll

http://www.bletchleyparkresearch.co.uk/research-notes/women-codebreakers/

http://www.dearcodebreaker.com/ A website dedicated to Margaret Rock!

Biography with photo: http://spartacus-educational.com/Margaret_Rock.htm