Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Spouse
Olive Rodman
(m. 1920)
Children
2
Parent
Edmund Arbuthnott Knox
Relatives
E. V. Knox
Wilfred Knox
Ronald Knox
Winifred Peck
Penelope Fitzgerald
Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943) was a British classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War.[1] He then joined the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS).[2]
As Chief Cryptographer,[2] Knox played an important role in the Polish–French–British meetings on the eve of the Second World War which disclosed Polish cryptanalysis of the Axis Enigma to the Allies.[3]
At Bletchley Park, he worked on the cryptanalysis of Enigma ciphers until his death in 1943. He built the team and discovered the method that broke the Italian Naval Enigma, producing the intelligence credited with Allied victory at the Battle of Cape Matapan. In 1941, Knox broke the Abwehr Enigma.[4] By the end of the war, Intelligence Service Knox had disseminated 140,800 Abwehr decrypts,[4] including intelligence important for D-Day.[5]
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transferred to Naval Intelligence Division, Room 40 codebreaking section. He, DillyKnox and Reverend William Montgomery decrypted the Zimmermann Telegram on 17...
Italian Diplomatic section. In the 1930s, Anderson collaborated with DillyKnox on building the Hungarian codebreaking books. She also managed and trained...
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