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telegraphist

  • a word derived from telegraph.
    telegraph
    noun
    an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.

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After divorcing her husband, she was posted to RAF Gibraltar where she worked as a telegraphist, a job which saw her work with morse code and given high level security clearance.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

Medals awarded to telegraphist Harold Cottam, who helped save 700 passengers on the Titanic, were also sold at the auction in Wiltshire on Saturday.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023

Among them was Ron Harris, 85, from Manchester, a telegraphist on board HMS Offa who was the first on the ship to learn that victory had been declared in Europe.

From BBC ● May 8, 2010

One, a telegraphist, seized the Morse key, clicked frantic appeals for help.

From Time Magazine Archive

Penn thinks that’s exactly why she told them she was a w/op—they call it W/T in SOE, wireless telegraphist: so she could give them code.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein