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VK6BE > CW 02.08.05 15:58l 19 Lines 607 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Aldis lamps..
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From: VK6BE@VK6JY.#ALY.#WA.AUS.OC
To : CW/ALD@WW
As far as I know the use of semaphore had disappeared from the Australian
Army before the WW2. I remember using it in the Boy Scouts c. 1933/34. I
think that, as with the signalling lamp, by 1942 a semaphore signalman
would have attracted too much rifle fire from the enemy.
Bob VK6BE
>
> The army used Semaphore. My dad was a signaller in the N.Z. army in WW2
> and was taught to send & receive Morse Code, and Semaphore using flags.
> He taught the latter to me in the 1960's. I can still remember some of
> the letters.
>
> 73 de Neil ZL1ANM
>
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