Saturday,
5 April 2025
British Royal reply to telegram

SURPRISED Beechworth Telegraph Station volunteer morsecodians Leo Nette and Jim Mitchell received an appreciative reply last Friday to a telegram sent to King Charles on September 11 last year.

"We got our heads together to send a telegram to the King offering our condolences on the passing of his mother Queen Elizabeth," Mr Nette said.

A morse code message had been tapped to a colleague in the ...

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