This is a list of notable telegraphists. WATC members trained as drivers, clerks and telegraphists. So you don't have to learn [with the radio telegraphists]. During the Great War the Royal Navy enlisted many volunteers as radio telegraphists. The number of telegraphists increased from four to five in 1959. No Telegraphists Air were carried because of the short drafting notice. In 1907, women also began to be employed as telegraphists in India and Burma (Myanmar). Skilled telegraphists must also know many traditional International Morse code communications conventions.