Title:

THE ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS Unit

Histories (1920-2001) of the Corps and
its Antecedents: Supplementary Volume
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Author:

Cliff Lord
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Helion & Company Ltd

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320pp

230mm x 145mm

150+ b/w photos

& ills
1-874622-33-7

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978-1-874622-33-8

With the interest shown in "The Royal Corps of Signals: Unit

History (1920-2001) and their Antecedents", it was decided to
extend the work to include some of the principal
Commonwealth Signal Corps, and to provide supplemental
data regarding British Signals that has come to light since the
original volume was published. The book concentrates on
Commonwealth signal corps unit histories for the following
countries: Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Rhodesia, Singapore, and South Africa. The
emphasis is post Second World War so as not to re-write the
official histories already published. A brief overview is also
given of each countries Corps history, and illustrations of
many of the units distinctive insignia are shown.
Supplementary information is included on Ceylon in the
Second World War, and British Signal units that served in
Northern and Southern Russia after the end of the First World
War, Royal Engineer Signal Service Volunteers in 1918, and
Air Formation Signals. The reader will note that Royal Signals
has strongly influenced most of the Corps, but each has
evolved in its own way to suit its geopolitical considerations.
With the advent of the computer-age and the move away
from torn-tape relay systems it is interesting to see how each
country comes to its own decision in providing a solution to
its Command, Control, Communications, Computers and
Intelligence. Electronic Warfare is covered to a limited extent.
At times it was difficult to distinguish between what was
tactical Electronic Warfare and quasi-governmental Signal
Intelligence gathering from fixed communication stations.
Canada proved a particularly difficult country to write about
due to having combined the three services into one military
organisation and correspondingly merged their
communicators and equipment. The book is Army-centric and
thus air force and naval assets and philosophies have been
kept to a minimum. This collection of individual signal unit
histories will not only be of interest to those that served in

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them and their families, but will assist researchers of military
history. Signals provide the nervous system of any army, and
without good communications there can be no success on the
battlefield. Signals not only provide tactical communications
within their formation but strategic communications linking
Headquarters with Headquarters around the world, and with
allies. More and more technology is determining the outcome of
conflict. More and more the importance of Signals is being understood. Today the close liaison between headquarters, intelligence and signals is ever more obvious, while the boundaries
between the Staff, Intelligence Corps and Signals is ever more
blurred. The challenge of Information Technology is being accepted and integrated into the way signals do business, and in
progressive Corps it is having a profound effect on the way they
operate and think. They are the silent elite.

KEY SALES POINTS

Follow-up volume to our highly-successful volume covering the history of the Royal Corps of Signals and other
Commonwealth Signals units.
Includes data covering the Signal Corps units of Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rhodesia, Singapore and South Africa.
Supplementary data relating to the Royal Corps of Signals and its antecedents includes Signals units in Russia
1918-21, Royal Engineer Signal Service Volunteers
1918, and Air Formation Signals.
Features a large number of photographs covering insignia and badges

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