WIRELESS TRAINING SCHOOL.

The Wireless School at the Engineers' Depot Moore Park, Sydney, supplies reinforcements to the various units. Applicants will be required to enlist for general service in the A. I. F, and their conduct and progress will decide whether they will embark with the wireless units or with other arms of the service.  Particulars may be obtained from the officer commanding the school The qualificatlons required for the various branches of the wireless service are as follow -

Operators should, if possible, be telegraphists capable of operating x words per minute or over.  Horsemanship is an advantage.  A few men who are only fair operators but skilled horsemen will be accepted.  Men of wireless experience and those who have qualified as operators in signal companies or signal troops of the Commonwealth forces will be given preference.  Trained instrument mechanics with experience in the adjustment and repair of electrical instruments and the overhaul and repair of internal combustion engines are required.  Horsemanship and fair operating skill are advantages.  A full statement of work and any testimonials should be submitted.  In the flying corps wireless mechanics receive 8/-per day, and in the other arms the pay is generally that of a driver, vis, 6/ per day.

Drivers for the signal and wireless squadron should be able to ride and drive well and those with mechanical knowledge and able to operate up to ten words per minute will be given preference

A few motor cyclist despatch riders are required, who should have a thorough knowledge of motor cycle riding, map reading, and, if possible, French and Arabic.

Linesmen who have had experience in laying light telegraph lines are required for the cable section.  They should be horsemen.  Men who have had experience with the cable sections of the Divisional Signal Company of the Commonwealth forces will receive preferences.

Although the first Sportsmen's Unit ís on the verge of completion, the nucleus of another is already being formed, and there need be no disappointment arising through the fear of being too late, as those who cannot be included in the first unit can be attached to the second, under sportsmen officers.  Recruits who answer the appeal should see that their papers are marked and signed by the recruiting officer accordingly when being sworn in.  

The idea of the Sportsmen's Unit being a reinforcement to the 19th Battalion following on the wish of the Director-General that all New South Wales sporting units should be attached to that battalion, has been approved.

It is intended to take steps to ascertain from the American Government whether they permit the enlistment of Americans in the Australian Forces.

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Monday 14 May 1917, page 8

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