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Gil Hayward
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'''Gilbert Osborne Hayward''' (born October 16,1917, died October 9, 2011) was a [[World War II]] cryptographer and inventor of the first electronic security seal.
During the Second World War, Hayward worked at the Post Office Research Station at [[Dollis Hill]] with [[Tommy Flowers]], developing the [[TUNNY|Tunny]] and [[Colossus computer|Colossus]], decrypting machines which were crucial to the development of later computers. By the end of the war, as many as 15 Tunny machines were used at [[Bletchley Park]], "providing Allied leaders with around 300 messages from the German High Command a week. Among other things, Tunny provided key intelligence for D-Day."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Over 13,000 messages were read in total.<ref></ref>
As a pupil at [[Kilburn Grammar School]], Hayward became fascinated by machines and science. He was the youngest member of the British Astronomical Society and built his own reflecting telescope and was would spend weeks in a junk yard to find parts with which he rebuilt an old green Bentley and a Scott Super Squirrel motorcycle, which he then rode. Hayward's mother refused to let him go to university and he left school at 16 to become an apprentice at the Dollis Hill Research Station, working with Dr [[Eric Speight]] on constructing the TIM speaking clock service.
During World War II, Hayward served in Egypt with the Intelligence Corps, where he developed bugging equipment to listen to conversations between captured German PoWs. Expecting to be dropped into Turkey to sabotage telecoms systems, he was instead called back to London to work on code breaking.
At Bletchley Park, he was responsible for a team of around 12 Post Office engineers worked to check machines and keep them running. At the end of the war he helped dismantle the codebreaking machines and re-install two Colossus machines at Eastcote, North London.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
After the war, Hayward worked on a secret voice encypherment system before moving to Ghana to install telecoms networks. In the 1950s, he joined the Special Branch of the [[Royal Malaysia Police|Royal Malaysian Police]] during the [[Malayan Emergency]] designing "special techniques devices"<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> for use against the [[Malayan Races Liberation Army|Malayan National Liberation Army]] (MNLA), the military arm of the [[Malayan Communist Party]] (MCP).
By the 1980s, Hayward had patented the first electronic security seal, setting up the company Encrypta Electronics with his son Mark to manufacture the product. The devices are still used widely in the transport and distribution industry. In the 1990s he helped researchers at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) rebuild the Tunny and Colossus machines by crafting new parts<ref></ref> from blueprints he had kept against the orders of Winston Churchill who was concerned that they could fall into Soviet hands. He was honoured with a special medal for his services to codebreaking in 1996.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Hayward's son Mark told BBC Radio 4 that it was 'somewhat disappointing that because he worked in secret work, like all these chaps did, that they were never truly honoured by the country for the contribution they made'.<ref></ref>
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March 07, 2018 at 08:51PM
