Dundee Wireless College 1939?

[iang]

Found this photo of my dad, (right front) taken1939?.

Gratefull for any information on location of College or photos.Can anybody identify other students?

IAIN

[trotterdotpom]

Nice photo Iain. Looks like the lads are having a bit of a laugh, I wonder what he's sending to them?

1939 - I wonder how many survived the next 6 years. According to the RAOSS, 10% of the many thousands of Merchant Seamen lost in WW2 were Captains or Radio Officers.

John T.


John T.

[dwdb]

DUNDEE WIRELESS COLLEGE (SCHOOL) WAS IN OPERATION ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914) - MY UNCLE WAS A STUDENT AND WENT TO SEA NEAR THE END OF THE WAR (JULY 1918) AS AN RO (WIRELESS OPERATOR) ON MERCHANT SHIPS - 1ST SHIP MANCHESTER BRIGADE (3771 TONS) TO QUBEC AND MONTREAL
I HAVE HIS 'CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY IN RADIOTELEGRAPHY (No. 4444) GRANTED BY THE POSTMASTER GENERAL FIRST CLASS ' WHICH WAS ISSUED IN JANUARY 1922 AN I UNDERSTAND THAT HIS INITIAL CERTIFICATE AND HIS 1ST CLASS WERE BOTH OBTAINED IN DUNDEE

[iang]

Does anyone know where the location of the Dundee Wireless College(School) was?
iang

[Shannoner]

may be here

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1945/1945%20-%201692.html

Look at bottom of page, under TUITION, second entry.

Dundee Wireless College, 7, Airlie Place,
Dundee