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First Direct Wireless Message Centenary Celebration in Wahroonga Sydney is streaming live on You Tube at 1pm today
22/09/2018

First Direct Wireless Message Centenary Celebration in Wahroonga Sydney is streaming live on You Tube at 1pm today

FIRST DIRECT WIRELESS MESSAGE UNITED KINGDOM TO AUSTRALIA CENTENARY Saturday 22nd September 2018On Sunday 22nd Sept...
21/09/2018

FIRST DIRECT WIRELESS MESSAGE
UNITED KINGDOM TO AUSTRALIA

CENTENARY Saturday 22nd September 2018

On Sunday 22nd September 1918 Australian Prime Minister William “Billy” Morris Hughes prepared a message for Senatore Marconi to send in morse code from the Marconi transmitter in Wales to Australia by wireless.

Ernest Fisk had an experimental wireless station at his residence in Wahroonga, Sydney primarily operated by AWA technicians where the message was received at 1.15pm. Ernest Fisk was the Managing Director of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited (A.W.A.).

The message read as follows:
"I have just returned from a visit to the battlefields where the glorious valour and dash of the Australian troops saved Amiens and forced back the legions of the enemy, filled with greater admiration than ever for these glorious men and more convinced than ever that it is the duty of their fellow-citizens to keep these magnificent battalions up to their full strength. W.M. Hughes, Prime Minister."

Technician Raymond E. McIntosh was the one who actually took down the message and transcribed the morse code into English in a log book and the official message form was written out later and signed by Ernest Fisk. The log book is now in the Mitchell Library.

In just 100 years wireless communication has totally transformed our world.
A centenary celebration and re-enactment is being held in Wahroonga today.

Gary McIntosh, Vice President, Daylesford RSL Sub Branch

24/04/2018

Dawn service: 6:30am at the Daylesford Cenotaph
Gun Fire breakfast: 7am
Street March From Town Hall: 10.15am
Main Service: 10.30am at the Daylesford Cenotaph
Lunch at the Daylesford R.S.L: 12pm
Hepburn Springs: 8.30am
Eganstown: 9.00am

20/04/2017

Anzac day
Daylesford-Dawn service 6.30am
Follower by gunfire breakfast
March from Townhall 10.15am
Service at cenotaph 10.30am
Hepburn Service at 8.30am
Eganstown Service at 9.00am
Bullarto Service at 1.00pm

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20 Vincent Street
Daylesford, VIC
3460

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