Obituary - Caroline Chojecki, analyst at Bletchley Park

The Herald ^ | 03-23-2018 | BILL HEANEY

[Captain Peter Blood]

Analyst at Bletchley Park

Born: November 11, 1920;

Died: September 24, 2017

CAROLINE Chojecki, who has died aged 96, was a Second World War intelligence analyst who played a key role at the Bletchley Park codebreaking centre, reorganising its database and undertaking research into the possible range of Germany’s newest submarines. Later, she worked at the Soviet Studies Research Centre, which was established at Sandhurst in the 1970s to assess threats from the Soviet bloc.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Another unsung hero of W.W. II died. She was one of the code breakers that worked at Bletchley Park. An astonishing breed of people that are fast leaving, but leave behind a legacy of sacrifice and patriotism during a dark time in world history. God Speed and many thanks for your invaluable work.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

She was played by Keira Knightley in "The Imitation Game."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I was wrong. She played Joan Clarke.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I have read account of those that worked there. There were many, a lot women by the way, they did extraordinary work. For the most part they were unsung and unknown.

[dadfly]

good post.

thank God for her service. praying comfort for her family.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Keira is such a cutie.

[llevrok]

and I bet she still obeyed the Official Secrets Act, right to the end.

[hanamizu]

For the most part they were unsung and unknown.

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Well the Official Secrets Act had pretty severe penalties for “being sung and known”. I’ve read that couples who met and married at Bletchley didn’t even tell each other what they worked on even years after the war ended.

[iowamark]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/remarkable-life-helensburgh-codebreaker-11908105
“The remarkable life of a Helensburgh codebreaker”

[oldvirginian]

A book I read many years ago said the war wasn’t won on the beaches of Normandy, the deserts of North Africa, the mountains of Italy or the steppes of the Soviet Union.
It was actually won at Bletchley Park by people who no one knew about. The Real Silent Service.