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This story was submitted to the People's War Site by Margaret Walsh of The Royal Star and Garter Home on behalf of Ralph Instone and has been added to the site with his permission.

I was an Infantry Officer, and I was in the Army from 1939 to 1946.

Being a classical scholar I was employed as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park. We obtained the enemy signals traffic by wireless interception.

In spite of the numbers involved it was a very well-kept secret, because for 30 years the general public did not know what had gone on there. The work done at Bletchley Park was thought to have shortened the war by three years.

After the war, I became a barrister until I retired at 75.

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