TheCodeBreakers
1910 that "no German work has ever been rendered into English so
idiomatically and yet so faithfully." A modest, reticent man, Montgomery
entered the censor's office in 1916, and later that year moved to Room
40.
While in Room 40 his familiarity with Scripture unriddled a problem
that had baffled most of the other staffers. A Sir Henry Jones had
received a blank postcard from Turkey addressed to him at 184 King's
Road, Tighna-bruaich, Scotland. Sir Henry knew that the card was from
his son, who had been captured by the Turks, but Tighna-bruaich is a
small village, with no King's Road and so few houses that no number
would have been needed in any case. The card found its way to Room 40,
where nobody seemed able to ascertain what Sir Henry's son was trying
to tell him. Finally Montgomery suggested a reference to chapter 18,
verse 4, of one of the books of Kings. Second Kings shed no light, but
annaabi.ee 
