E133 - Honouring Our Veterans

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

January 2022

The Podcast Team wish all our listeners a Very Happy New Year and how better to start it than with some great news.

With over 13,500 names so far, The Bletchley Park Roll of Honour aims to list all those who worked in signals intelligence for the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries during the Second World War. As no single list of the personnel of Bletchley Park and its outstations was ever produced, the Roll of Honour has been compiled from information in official sources, publications and, most importantly, that provided by the Veterans themselves, their former colleagues and families.

In this episode, Podcast Producer Mark Cotton sits down with Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne to talk about the online return of this vital research tool, what it contains and how Veterans and their families can help us to continue adding to it. He also updates us on the Oral History Project and shares some highlights from recordings made in 2021.

The Bletchley Park Roll of Honour can be found at:

https://bletchleypark.org.uk/roll-of-honour/

This episode features the following contributors from our Oral History Archive:

Sheila Wilson

Eric Coles

Lola Marsden

#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #WW2, #OralHistory

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The From the home of the codebreakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:38.7	Welcome to the January 22 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast, Honouring Our Veterans.
0:47.1	The Bletchley Park role of honour aims to list all those who worked in Signals
0:50.8	Intelligence for the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries during the
0:54.3	Second World War.
0:55.9	As no single list of the personnel of Bletchley Park in its outstations was ever produced,
1:00.6	the role of honour has been compiled from information in official sources, publications, and
1:05.6	most importantly, that provided by the veterans themselves, their former colleagues and families.
1:11.6	In this episode, we sit down with Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne
1:15.3	to talk about the online return of this vital research tool,
1:19.0	what it contains, and how veterans and their families can help us to continue adding to it.
1:24.1	He also updates us on the Oral History Project
1:26.3	and share some highlights from recordings made in 2021.
1:38.6	First off, I'd like to wish all of our listeners a happy new year.'s january 2022 and i'm sat in a small room
1:48.8	upstairs in the mansion at bletchley park but i'm not here on my own i'm joined by jonathan
1:54.0	burn who's bletchley park's oral history officer happy new year jonathan happy new year to you mark
1:59.7	and happy new year to all our listeners.
2:01.6	Regular listeners will have heard Jonathan before. Jonathan looks after our team of volunteers
2:06.6	who go around the country, recording interviews with our veterans, saving their stories and
2:12.0	their histories in their own voices, in their own words for future generations. But we're actually
2:17.4	here today for a different
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