{"id":6940,"date":"2019-06-25T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=6940"},"modified":"2019-06-25T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:45:50","slug":"noel-chapman-passed-away-early-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/noel-chapman-passed-away-early-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Noel Chapman – Passed Away Early 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith McCredden advised at the June AGM that he had received a call from Noel’s wife that he had passed away early in 2019.<\/p>\n

Noel started working for OTC in 1955 as a Traffic Assistant after coming to Sydney from Armidale NSW.<\/p>\n

He underwent telegraphist training just before the 1956 Olympics and this was where he learned Morse Code.<\/p>\n

He spent time working in Spring Street and on Fanning Island, Norfolk Island and Cocos Island before finishing up at Paddington & Broadway as an INTLX operator where he provided training to operators on the Hasler Telex exchange.<\/p>\n

Noel was a keen cricketer and featured often in Transit articles detailing his successes as a batsman.<\/p>\n

The below photo is from the September 1972 edition of Transit shows Noel alongside Keith McCredden and others.<\/p>\n

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Keith McCredden advised at the June AGM that he had received a call from Noel’s wife that he had passed away early in 2019. Noel started working for OTC in 1955 as a Traffic Assistant after coming to Sydney from Armidale NSW. He underwent telegraphist training just before the 1956 Olympics and this was where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMOfU-1NW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}