Joan Winifred Joslin (née Glover, 11 March 1923 – 8 February 2020) was a British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.[1][2][3]
Joan Glover was born on 11 March 1923.[4][5] She was ordered to Bletchley Park on 24 December 1941.[1][2] After six weeks learning to use Hollerith machines for code-breaking, she worked during the war to decrypt messages from Japanese airplanes and German ships.[1][3] Her work helped locate and sink the German battleship Scharnhorst.[3]
Joslin met her husband at her first day of work at the facility; they became engaged three years later, in 1944 and married after the war finished. Her cryptography work remained a secret until the mid-1970s.[1][2][3] Joslin was interviewed as part of the Bletchley Park Oral History Project in May 2014.[6]
Joslin died in Essex on 8 February 2020, at the age of 96.[7][8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Bearne, Suzanne (24 July 2018), "Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park", The Guardian
- ^ a b c Jones, Bryony (14 September 2015), Bletchley code-breaker: I wanted to shout 'War's over!' but couldn't, CNN
- ^ a b c d "We had to keep the war's end secret", The Telegraph, 31 May 2005
- ^ "Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park". The Guardian. 24 July 2018. Archived from the original on 5 July 2023.
- ^ Joan Glover in the 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ Bletchley Park: Miss Joan Winifred Glover (Joslin)
- ^ "Joslin, Joan Winifred". Probate Search. UK Government. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ^ "JOSLIN, JOAN WINIFRED, b. 1923, GRO Reference: DOR Q1/2020 in ESSEX (463-1A) Entry Number 520308764". GRO Index. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
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