The Royal Navy during the Second World War Coders at work deciphering messages received from other ships on board HMS SHROPSHIRE. The rating nearest the camera is J H Watts, of St Albans, who was an engineers apprentice before the war. The second man is R D J Hughes, from Rhyl, N Wales, who was a Rural Council clerk.

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