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Albert Leslie Yoxall (18 May 1914 – 30 September 2005) was a British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.[1]

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  1. 17 relations: Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, Cheltenham, Clive Loehnis, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Eastcote, Enigma machine, GCHQ, Gordon Welchman, Hut 8, Manchester Grammar School, Rail transport, Salford, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, W. T. Tutte, World War II.

  2. GCHQ cryptographers

Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. Leslie Yoxall and Alan Turing are Bletchley Park people.

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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England.

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Clive Loehnis

Sir Clive Loehnis KCMG (24 August 1902 – 23 May 1992) was a director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1960 to 1964.

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Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander

Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (19 April 1909 – 15 February 1974), known as Hugh Alexander and C. H. O'D. Leslie Yoxall and Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander are Bletchley Park people and GCHQ cryptographers.

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Eastcote

Eastcote is a suburban area in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in west London.

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Enigma machine

The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication.

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GCHQ

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. Primarily based at "The Doughnut" in the suburbs of Cheltenham, GCHQ is the responsibility of the country's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Foreign Secretary), but it is not a part of the Foreign Office and its Director ranks as a Permanent Secretary.

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Gordon Welchman

William Gordon Welchman OBE (15 June 1906 – 8 October 1985) was a British mathematician. Leslie Yoxall and Gordon Welchman are Bletchley Park people.

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Hut 8

Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station, located in Buckinghamshire) tasked with solving German naval (Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages.

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Manchester Grammar School

The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is a 7–18 private day school for boys in Manchester, England which is the largest private day school for boys in the United Kingdom. Leslie Yoxall and Manchester Grammar School are People educated at Manchester Grammar School.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Salford

Salford is a cathedral city in Greater Manchester, England.

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Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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W. T. Tutte

William Thomas Tutte (14 May 1917 – 2 May 2002) was an English and Canadian code breaker and mathematician. Leslie Yoxall and w. T. Tutte are Bletchley Park people.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

GCHQ cryptographers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Yoxall

Also known as Yoxallismus.