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The Indian Signal Corps was also set up in 1920 with British officers and ranks from the Royal Corps of Signals working alongside Indian Signallers; between 1920 and 1940 one third of Royal Signals personnel were serving in India.<ref>[http://www.royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk/corps-history/ Corps History] royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk</ref>
==FIBIS resources==
*[http://www.gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/category/25 FIBIS Gallery: Eric Lomax Collection]. Eric Lomax served in the Royal Signals during the war. He was captured by the Japanese in Singapore and forced to work on the infamous Burma Railway. In the early part of the war, he was posted to the Northwest frontier region where many of these photographs were taken.
==Regimental History==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Corps_of_Signals Royal Corps of Signals] Wikipedia
*[http://www.royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk Royal Signals Museum] located at Blandford Camp, Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. Includes [http://www.royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk/research-archives/ Research & archive services]. The Museum is within an Army Camp, and photo ID is required. The Camp is not easily accessible by public transport. An overseas researcher commented that this museum was absolutely worth the visit but it would have been much cheaper for him had he rented a car at Heathrow.<ref>Chasemuseum. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.com/forumsorg/topic/168742-1917-dated-dial-sight-no-7-mk-ii/?do=findComment&comment=2597695 1917 dated, Dial Sight No. 7, MK II] ''Great War Forum'' 2 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 201810 September 2020.</ref>
*[http://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2014/royal-corps-of-signals "Royal Corps of Signals"] by Stuart Bates May 16, 2014. Includes illustrations of the identifying flash worn on the side of the uniform sun helmet. militarysunhelmets.com
*"The King's Shilling" by Neil Walker [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cr/stories/76/a8543676.shtml Part 2a - India] c 1937 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/48/a8543748.shtml Part 2b - India] ([http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/38/a8542938.shtml Part 1-Joining Up]) He was a member of the Royal Signals. WW2People’s War bbc.co.uk.
:[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/19/a5396619.shtml Part I: Scotland to Burma], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/43/a5396943.shtml Part II: Driving to Meiktila, Central Burma and Life in the Jungle]
:[https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbarlow/sets/72157661200709283/page1 Photograph Collection: Alastair Stewart McGhee from his time in North West India from 1946 to 1947]. flickr.com. He was initially based at [[Risalpur]], then at Gardai, [[Waziristan]].
*[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/09/eric-lomax Eric Lomax obituary] (1919-2012) ''The Guardian'' 10 October 2012. He was in Singapore at the surrender in 1942 and became a POW working on the Burma-Siam railway. His memoir is ''The Railway Man'', (available online, refer below), now also released as a film of the same name. Also see [[Royal Corps of Signals#FIBIS resources|FIBIS resources above]]
===Historical books online===
*[https://www.royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk/wire-archive/ ''The Wire'' Archive] A repository for all editions of ''The Wire'', the Magazine of the Royal Corps of Signals, from 1920 to 2008. royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk
*[http://www.davidhorsfield.org.uk ''From Semaphore to Satellite The memoirs of Major General David Horsfield, Royal Signals''] may be read online. He served in Burma in 1942 and was then in India 1942-1946.
*[https://archive.org/details/railwayman0000loma_e5v3/mode/2up ''The Railway Man''] by Eric Lomax 2014 first published 1995. He became a POW at the fall of Singapore. Archive.org Books to Borrow Lending Library.
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