'Her story will live on' - WWII codebreaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

One of the last Bletchley Park's heroes Betty Webb dies

Obit: Kept quiet for 30 years before becoming an 'unrivalled advocate' for the site

During World War II, she helped the British crack encrypted news: Charlotte "Betty-Webb was one of the last code-crackers of Bletchley Park – now she died at the age of 101. In Bletchley Park, a property north of London, the British had cracked the Nazi encryption code and also worked to understand news from other hostile states. Films such as "The Imitation Game – A Top Secret Life" tell about it. Webb was one of the last surviving "Codebreaker…

British WWII code-breaker 'Betty' Webb dies aged 101

One of the United Kingdom's oldest surviving World War II code-breakers has passed away at the age of 101, the Women's Royal Army Corps Association (WRAC) reported on Tuesday. Charlotte "Betty" Webb worked at Bletchley Park, the famous British code-breaking center just north of London, where she would sort and index Nazi communications which had been intercepted and deciphered. What was Betty Webb's job at Bletchley Park? A German speaker, Webb'…

Betty Webb, Who Helped Bletchley Park Code Breakers, Dies at 101 - Overpasses For America

Charlotte Webb, who as a young woman helped code breakers decipher enemy signals at Britain’s top-secret Bletchley Park, died on Monday. She was 101. Her death was confirmed by the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association and by the Bletchley Park Trust. Ms. Webb, known as Betty, was 18 when she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women’s branch of the British Army, and was assigned to work at the base in Buckinghamshire where Bletchley Pa…

Friends told Charlotte "Betty" Webb she was a secretary. Instead, she worked for the British secret service to crack the encrypted codes of the Nazis. Now the veteran died at the age of 101.

The use of Charlotte "Betty" Webb remained a secret for a long time. She began her career as a secretary.