telegraph

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Girl telegraphists, telephonists and mechanics �about one to every 15 men�moved with the army.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the busiest hours of the day, no less than 346 telegraphists were at work at the same time in the great instrument room of the Central Telegraph Office, and 230 instruments were operated.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

In an adjoining room there are telegraphists and telephone operators receiving and dispatching messages.

From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by Dilnot, George

Tihran is the centre of telegraphic control, and the residence of Colonel Wells, R.E., the Director, with a staff of twenty telegraphists, who work in relays day and night, and a Medical Officer.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Others, the telegraphists and telephonists are in the Signalling Corps and these are the only ones who wear Army badges.

From Women and War Work by Fraser, Helen