Royal Corps of Signals
Also known as the Royal Signals or the Royal Signals Corps
A Royal Warrant for the creation of a Corps of Signals was signed by the Secretary of State for War, Winston Churchill, on 28 June 1920. Six weeks later, King George V conferred the title Royal Corps of Signals.
FIBIS resources
- 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.
External links
- Royal Corps of Signals Wikipedia
- 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, now also released as a film of the same name. Also see FIBIS resources above
- From Semaphore to Satellite The memoirs of Major General David Horsfield, Royal Signals may be read online. He served in Burma during World War 2 and was then in India 1942-1946. (Cached URL)
- Graham F Reed was a junior officer in the Royal Signals Corps in his early twenties, who was a Signals Officer with a Mountain Gun Regiment based at Razmak in Waziristan in 1945-47. His book is Walks in Waziristan, with an extract In action from Walks in Waziristan. (Cached URL) The first two chapters are available from Preview Google Books