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Irene Dixon with a second world war German Lorenz machine in the background
MargaretO’Connell
Wed 10 Feb 2021 07.47 EST
Last modified on Fri 5 Mar 2021 13.34 EST
My friend Irene Dixon, who has died aged 96, was one of the first female operators of the second world war codebreaking machine Colossus Mk I at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.
Irene, an east Londoner, might never have worked at Bletchley had it not been for a chickenpox infection that prevented her from being sent to work in a wartime munitions factory in Birmingham. Someone must then have spotted her talent and, when she had recovered, she was given psychometric tests, after which she was invited to join the Women’s Royal Naval Service. In 1943 she was posted to Bletchley to work on top-secret equipment.