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Dilly Knox brass plaque

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This brass commemorative plaque records: Dillwyn (Dilly) Knox was the pioneer UK Enigma cryptanalyst 23 July 1884 - 27 February 1943 The first German message was broken here in January 1940

From the Open Plaques record 2746

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