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Restall, Bruce Alexander Beaconsfield

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Title Wireless Telegraph Operator (4th Class) (RNCVR)
Official Number OFF VR-0208; VR-1459; 0367
 
Birth 19/04/1895 Death 00/00/1970
Place Bristol Place Victoria
Area Area BC
Country UK Country Canada
 
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Biography
He apprenticed in the UK as a machinist. He emigrated to Victoria and became a journeyman electrician. In 1914 he went to Seattle WA USA and qualified as with a First Class Operator's Certificate. He built electronic components for Radio Amateur Operators. In 1923 he was a Radio Technician at the Radio Workshop in Esquimalt BC. In 1937 he was a Wireless Operator at Pachena Pont Radio Station.
 
Military Service
He was appointed as a Fourth Class Wireless Telegraph Operator RNCVR (With seniority dated 08/05/1917). In 1917-1918 he served in HMCS Rainbow for Wireless Telegraph Duty (West Coast) at Triangle Island Radio Station. (He was demobilized.)
 
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Anecdotes
He is also listed incorrectly listed by the navy as Reestal. His son reported that he installed the first wireless on the CC1 submarines.
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/royal-canadian-navy-1910-1941-ledger-sheets/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=396&; Frank Statham in his Rough Radio website http://www.roughradio.ca/staff/o_r_staff.html; http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/royal-canadian-navy-1910-1941-ledger-sheets/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=1365&; Email (Allen Restall - Nauticapedia 03/05/2016);
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2016-04-09 00:00:00

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