Joan Joslin

Joan Winifred Joslin (née Glover, 11 March 1923 – 8 February 2020) was a British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.[1][2][3]

Joan Glover was born on 11 March 1923.[4][5] She was ordered to Bletchley Park on 24 December 1941.[1][2] After six weeks learning to use Hollerith machines for code-breaking, she worked during the war to decrypt messages from Japanese airplanes and German ships.[1][3] Her work helped locate and sink the German battleship Scharnhorst.[3]

Joslin met her husband at her first day of work at the facility; they became engaged three years later, in 1944 and married after the war finished. Her cryptography work remained a secret until the mid-1970s.[1][2][3] Joslin was interviewed as part of the Bletchley Park Oral History Project in May 2014.[6]

Joslin died in Essex on 8 February 2020, at the age of 96.[7][8]

References
  1. Bearne, Suzanne (24 July 2018), "Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park", The Guardian
  2. Jones, Bryony (14 September 2015), Bletchley code-breaker: I wanted to shout 'War's over!' but couldn't, CNN
  3. "We had to keep the war's end secret", The Telegraph, 31 May 2005
  4. "Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park". The Guardian. 24 July 2018. Archived from the original on 5 July 2023.
  5. Joan Glover in the 1939 England and Wales Register
  6. Bletchley Park: Miss Joan Winifred Glover (Joslin)
  7. "Joslin, Joan Winifred". Probate Search. UK Government. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  8. "JOSLIN, JOAN WINIFRED, b. 1923, GRO Reference: DOR Q1/2020 in ESSEX (463-1A) Entry Number 520308764". GRO Index. Retrieved 7 September 2022.


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