Ninety-two-year-old Captain Jerry Roberts, former codebreaker, was awarded MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elisabeth for his codebreaking work at the legendary Bletchley Park during World War Two.

Roberts was a founding member of the Testery team, which was set up in Bletchley Park in October 1941 with the aim to decipher messages sent by the Lorenz, Germany's highest level cipher system. Bill Tuttle was the first to break the Lorenz system. The team worked very efficiently from the mid-1942 until the end of World War Two.

The Lorenz system used by Hitler and the German high command was even more complicated than the well-known Enigma, which was also broken by the brilliant cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park. Lorenz had twelve rotors as opposed to Enigma's three, and the messages it generated were more important (revealing strategic thinking, planning and decisions). The codebreakers' activity was a closely guarded secret even after World War Two, much of the information was declassified and made publicly accessible only in 2002.

After 1945, Captain Roberts worked in marketing and market research for nearly fifty years. For the past few years, he has been promoting the work of the 'Four T's' (the Testery team, Alan Turing, Bill Tuttle and Tommy Flowers, who was tasked to design Colossus) to the wider public.