
Remembering Jack Glover: Navy decoder and shipmate of novelist Alistair MacLean
By The Captain.
Jack Glover was born in Leeds on 23rd Oct 1923. After leaving school, he trained as an accountant and in 1942 was called up and sent to HMS Royal Arthur (aka Butlins Skegness), where his naval communications training started.
Coders were the specialised members of the communications