BLETCHLEY Park code breaker Betty Webb left £300,000 in her will, probate documents reveal.
She helped Alan Turing decipher Nazi messages scrambled by the supposedly unbreakable German Enigma machine in World War Two.
Betty, who died in March aged 101, once said she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service so she could “do more for the war effort than bake sausage rolls”.
She left her net estate of £302,000 to nephew Michael and niece Jane.
She had no children and did not remarry following the death of husband Alfred in 1979.
Betty spent four years at Bletchley and was then sent to Washington DC to intercept Japanese messages while the US fought in the Far East.
She later worked at the Birmingham Law Society.
After her death, the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association described her as an “inspiration for women in the Army for decades”
After the war, the Army hero was unable to find work because, bound by strict secrecy laws, she couldn’t explain the massive gap on her CV.
She eventually got a job as a secretary at a school where the headmaster had also worked at Bletchley.
Mrs Webb later worked at the Birmingham Law Society even after her full role as a code breaker was revealed to the public in 1975.
She spent her last years giving talks about Bletchley and was made an MBE in 2015.
The then 97-year-old became one of the oldest people ever to receive the highest French civilian award, the Legion d’Honneur in 2021.
