BRAVE WIRELESS OPERATORS
O.C. SYDNEY, September 15. 'Ordered to leave by the captain three radio operators on a liner torpedoed in the Indian Ocean decided to continue sending out SOS messages, and went down with the ship. They were W. H. Harris, of Sydney, R. C Humphrey, of Sydney,, who had been discharged from the A.1.F., and C. X Begdon, whose mother is a prisoner of war in Hong Kong, and- whose iather and sister live in Sydney. The master, Captain T. J. Mills of Sydney, jumped from the bridge' as the ship went under and was saved He said there was a violent explosion at 2.50 a.m. He gave the order to abandon ship. The radio room advised him that the main auxiliary transmitting sets had been put out of action Captain Mills ordered the radio operators to join the lifeboat, but they decided to stay. A few seconds before the bridge was awash the men had , jfixedL the transmitter and sent an SOS
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 69, 19 September 1944, Page 4
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