Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03

John Jeffreys Biography and Timeline

Follow John Jeffreys through 2 dated historical records for Great Britain.

John Jeffreys, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1940–1940Years on this page

1940

Enigma Machine

Warfare / World War, 2nd

The first operational break into Enigma when the team working under Dilly Knox, with the mathematicians John Jeffreys, Peter Twinn and Alan Turing, unravelled the German Army administrative key that became known at Bletchley Park as The Green, encouraged by this success, the codebreakers later crack the Red key used by the Luftwaffe

Role range: 1939-1945

Luftwaffe

Warfare / World War, 2nd

The first operational break into Enigma when the team working under Dilly Knox, with the mathematicians John Jeffreys, Peter Twinn and Alan Turing, unravelled the German Army administrative key that became known at Bletchley Park as The Green, encouraged by this success, the codebreakers later crack the Red key used by the Luftwaffe

Role range: 1939-1945

Records, sources and methodology

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