Argles
Argles is a surname, and may refer to: * Jean Argles (1925–2023), British World War II code breaker * Marsham Argles (1814–1892), Anglican clergyman * Harold Arthur Argles (1899–1929), member, personnel of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition * Frank Atkinson Argles (), High Sheriff of Westmorland * Theodore Argles (1851–1886), Australian journalist * Thomas Atkinson Argles (), High Sheriff of Westmorland See also * Argle (other) Argle or Argles may refer to: ;Argle * A surname, variant of Orgill * A fictional character in works of Margot Pardoe ;Argles * Argles, surname See also * Argleton * Argyle (other) Argyle is an archaic spelling of Argyll, a county in ...

Jean Argles
Jean Argles (née Owtram) (7 November 1925 – 2 April 2023) was a Second World War code breaker and cipher officer. She and her sister Pat Davies are often referred to as "The Codebreaking Sisters". As a teenager, Jean Owtram joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) in London, signing the Official Secrets Act 1911 and working in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She contributed to the SOE’s resistance network behind enemy lines, decoding messages from agents in the field. Promoted to the rank of officer at the age of 18, she worked in Egypt, Italy and Austria. In her later years she discovered that her sister had also been doing secret war work. Until Argles died in 2023, they were the last two sisters who had been required to sign the Official Secrets Act. The sisters appeared live and on radio and TV, relating stories of war time and co-publishing, in their nineties, a book titled ''Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War'' which became a best seller. Early life Do ...
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Theodore Argles
Theodore Emil Argles (c. 1851 – 9 October 1886) was an Australian journalist described as "amazingly clever and desperately erratic", who wrote under a variety of names, including "Pasquin", "Harold Grey" and "The Pilgrim". History Argles was born in England, the son of a Jewish-French solicitor and his English wife, and having come into some money (from parents wishing to be quit of a troublesome son, one commentator suggested), made a tour of Europe and South America before emigrating to Australia, settling first in Victoria, and contributed some anonymous pieces to an Adelaide paper before moving to Sydney and deciding on the life of a journalist. Between April and October 1877 he wrote a series of articles for '' Freeman's Journal'', under the rubric "Unorthodox Sydney, by a Pilgrim", taking the reader inside Darlinghurst Gaol, Kent Street Refuge, a Sly Grog Shop, the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children, the Gladesville Hospital for the Insane, the Redfern Benevolent Asyl ...
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Personnel Of The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition
The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, 1921–22, was the last Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Proposed as an ambitious two-year programme of Antarctic exploration it was curtailed by the death of Shackleton and the inadequacies of the expedition's ship, ''Quest (ship), Quest''. Under the command of Frank Wild several attempts were made to break through the Antarctic pack ice, but the expedition was never able to proceed further than longitude 20°E. On the crew's return to Cape Town to refit in preparation for the second term they were ordered home. The crew of the ''Quest'' comprised 24 members in all, but only 19 were on board for the start of the Antarctic portion (Hussey accompanied Shackleton's body when it was put on board a ship for England, and Eriksen, Mooney and Bee-Mason had left before the ship reached South Georgia Island, South Georgia). Gerald Lysaght, a yachtsman, accompanied the crew from Plymouth to Cape Verde. Notes References

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