Working at Bletchley Park: Gordon Preston's Enigmatic Journey

The contributor brought along two medals and an approx. 2003 reunion photo of his grandfather's time at Bletchley Park.

His grandfather, Gordon Preston, had been a Maths undergraduate at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. During his time as an undergraduate, around the age of 19/20, he worked in the numinary at Bletchley Park. While he had not worked with Alan Turing directly, the two had played chess together. In his work, he was able to help break the codes. Later, he became a Professor in Australia. Of his time in Bletchley Park, he does not remember much and was not allowed to speak of much of what was occurring.