OUT OF THIN AIR

Of course what Group Captain Stewart heard was not a voice transmitted through radio. Instead, it was due to induction caused by the damp weather. But the fact he heard it verified how it was possible for the human voice to travel without wires!

Another exciting event, in 1912, was experienced by a member of that group, Ernest Auld. Ernie received, directly by wireless, much of the news about the Titanic’s sinking long before many of the local newspapers.

Many of the fourteen or fifteen boys who gathered around my father during this period went to war when the conflict broke out in 1914. I have a photograph of several of them—those who were especially Close—being driven to their embarkment by my father. Dad, too, was called, and shortly after he said farewell to the boys in his squad he moved with his young family to Halifax taking up duty there as the Fortress Signal’s Officer, at the Citadel.

Credit PAPEI

Capt. Keith S. Rogers, driving. Others are: Cpl Ernest G. Weeks, Signalman George W. Gardner, Vernon H. MacLeod, Heber R. Large, Harry W. Whitlock, H. Ronald Stewart.

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