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Code-breakers
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Oliver and Sheila Lawn were just two of the ten thousand people who by the end of the Second World War had worked at the famous Bletchley Park in various aspects of code breaking.
Oliver arrived at Bletchley in 1940 after he was recruited by a don from Cambridge University where he was studying mathematics. Sheila was studying languages in Aberdeen when she was recruited in 1943 and went on to work at Bletchley as a linguist and cryptographer.
Such was the premiurm put on secrecy that neither during their time at Bletchley, nor during their subsequent romance - not even after they were married - did either Sheila or Oliver talk to each other about the work they'd both been involved in at Bletchley. Nor would they do so for a good thirty years.
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