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==Early Life==

==Early Life==

Born in Poplar in the East End, the poorest part of [[London]] in 1905. The son of a bricklayer, Flowers gained a scholarship to technical college, enabling him to stay in full-time education until aged 16, which was then very unusual for a working-class boy. He served a four- year mechanical apprenticeship at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, gained a London University degree in Engineering through evening classes, and then joined the Post Office as an electrical engineer in 1926, aged 20. Besides his involvement with electronic telephone transmissions, he also did sterling work in the forward line of the DH hockey team in the immediate pre-war years.

Born in Poplar in the East End, the poorest part of [[London]] in 1905, the son of a bricklayer, Flowers gained a scholarship to technical college, enabling him to stay in full-time education until aged 16, which was then very unusual for a working-class boy. He served a four- year mechanical apprenticeship at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, gained a London University degree in Engineering through evening classes, and then joined the Post Office as an electrical engineer in 1926, aged 20. Besides his involvement with electronic telephone transmissions, he also did sterling work in the forward line of the DH hockey team in the immediate pre-war years.

==Wartime Code-breaking Work==

==Wartime Code-breaking Work==