Can anyone shed light on this photo please?

[Trini]

What are the two sticks held, and what is the contraption at the feet of the bloke in the middle of the front row?  Are the blokes with headphones on ...radio operators?  Any help appreciated

[Malcolm33]

  The flash on the arm of the airman standing with headphones in centre shows that he is a wireless operator.   The sticks look like slide rules and if the building is a meteorological office then they may have been used on weather maps.   The uniforms are post 1918 as is the rank of LAC.

[Trini]

Thank you, Malcolm.

[BSIGGYME]

im sure it a telegraff office but for the life of me carnt remember the name of the tapping thing
you tapped to send message on and instead of a book full of letters it all on a baton for quick use im 100% on that hope
it helps chris if not at all please let me no 

[Rena]

When I was young I was given a morse code tapper thingy which had been used by an army telegraphist.

There's a small photo at the bottom of this page which shows an army telegraph office

http://43hs031.hamsphere.net/?page_id=1122

[Ruskie]

Trini, are you able to rescan or enhance the 'certificate' or whatever it is, by the feet of the man on the left. It looks significant as it is proudly displayed, and whatever is written on it may give some clues.

Great photo. What a happy bunch they are.

[Joyful]

This photo has been presented before but I can't find the posting...can anyone else

find it

Joy

[Spikey68]

Joy, I was thinking the same thing, and was just looking for it!!! Great Minds and all that

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=287542.0

and the parallel discussion over on rafcommands (which is where I originally saw the thread)

http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?991-1920s-Meteorological-Section-photo

I remember it being one of the most interesting bits of collective research on here and there

[Joyful]

Thank goodness someone else saw it...I was beginning to think I'd finally

lost my marbles Thanks for the links

Joy