...and in spite of such a huge contribution to the winning of the war, Alan Turing was prosecuted for being a homosexual, forced to take female hormones rather than go to prison, and to this date still hasn't had his name officially cleared.
The only current petition to reverse the charges is in the House of Lords. When a group of overprivileged inbreds beat you to restoring the memory of a wronged man who helped defeat one of the greatest evils on the planet, that should tell you something.