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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.
Prior to the creation of a separate Corps, signallers were part of the [[Corps of Royal Engineers]].
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==
*''The Royal Corps of Signals. A history of its antecedents and development, circa 1800-1955'' by R. F. H. Nalder. Published at London by Royal Signals Institution, 1958.
==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].
*[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.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'', now also released as a film of the same name. Also see [[Royal Corps of Signals#FIBIS resources|FIBIS resources above]]
*[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.
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