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The Defence School of Communications and Information Systems (DSCIS) is a Defence Training Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence.It was formed on 1 April 2004 and comprises a headquarters and The Royal Signals School at Blandford Camp, and No.1 Radio School at RAF Cosford, including the Aerial Erectors School at RAF Digby.
Royal Signals officers receive general military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, followed by specialist communications training at the Royal School of Signals, Blandford Camp, Dorset. Other ranks are trained both as field soldiers and tradesmen.
The school was founded in 1869 at Chatham in Kent as the Signal Wing of the Royal School of Military Engineering. [2] It moved to Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire in 1915, Maresfield Park in Sussex in 1920, Catterick Camp in North Yorkshire in 1925 and Blandford Camp in Dorset in 1967. [2] It became the Royal School of Signals in 1992. [2]
Blandford was then selected to be the future home of the School of Signals (then at Catterick) and the present-day camp was planned. The School of Signals (now the Royal School of Signals) moved there in 1967, to be responsible for all management and technical courses for Royal Signals Officers and NCOs. [6]
The Royal Corps of Signals Unit Histories of the Corps (1920-2001) and Its Antecedents. Helion and Company, 2003. ISBN 1874622922 "Royal Signals". www.army.mod.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-20. Watson, Graham E. and Rinaldi, Richard A. The British Army in Germany (BAOR and After): An Organisational History 1947-2004 Tiger Lily Publications LLC 2005.
Working within Regimental Headquarters Royal Signals, based in Blandford Camp, Dorset, are the Royal Signals Benevolent Fund Grants Section and the Royal Signals Association Branches and Membership Section. The RSBF Grants Section assists signallers by way of grants of money or paying for items to reduce hardship and distress suffered by ...
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