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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1197/
- Published: 2025-04-25T18:30:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-25T18:30:19.000Z
- Description: The 100-year-old can still chatter in Morse, mimicking a Morse key by clicking his tongue and lips.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> **“…. .- .--. .--. -.– / -… .. .-. - …. -.. .- -.- ”**  
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> A Morse code birthday blessing for John Daniel Clark – because the wartime Royal Navy signalman and telegraphist’s second language is Morse code. He still taps it, speaks it, thinks it – even 80 years after the war. And now, as he turns 100 on Anzac Day, April 25, the new centenarian is saluted with “dits and dahs”.  
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> **“…. .- .--. .--. -.– / -… .. .-. - …. -.. .- -.- ”** Happy Birthday.  
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> For three years aboard that beast of a heavy cruiser, the 10,000-ton, 70-gun HMS Suffolk during the dark days of Word War II, it was Clark’s duty to shadow Hitler – in a windowless radio cabin trawling for active Morse transmissions from enemy territory, and to transmit critical messages on enemy troop movements and positions, weather and tactical orders.  
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> “Four hours on, eight off, round the clock. You started thinking in Morse,” said the Leading Signalman when *The Weekend Sun* visited last week. Probably dreaming, too, in Morse. Now it’s a party piece. The 100-year-old can still chatter in Morse, mimicking a Morse key by clicking his tongue and lips.  
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> “Dit-dit-dit-dit dit dit-dah-dit-dit dit-da-dit-dit dah-dah-dah – hullo”  
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> He likes that, thinks it’s funny.  
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> NZ Herald

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