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The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals – abbreviated to R SIGNALS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army.Signals units are among the first into action, providing the battlefield communications and information systems essential to all operations.
On 21 December, Corporal Steven Dunn, aged 27, from 216 Parachute Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals, died in an explosion in the Nahr-e Saraj district in Helmand Province. [263] On 28 December, Warrant Officer Class 2 Charlie Wood, aged 34, from 23 Pioneer Regiment, RLC, died in an explosion in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand Province ...
Derek Tony Wood, aged 24, and David Robert Howes, aged 23, were corporals in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals. According to the British Army, Wood and Howes ignored general orders to stay away from the area where the funeral was being held. [9] It has been presumed that the two men drove into the procession by mistake.
During the Iraq War, 179 British service personnel and at least three UK Government civilian staff died. [1]Many more were wounded. Of the more than 183 fatalities, 138 personnel were classified as having been killed in hostile circumstances, with the remaining 44 losing their lives as a result of illness, accidents/friendly fire, or suicide.
Jabron Hashmi was born in Peshawar, Pakistan, and moved to the United Kingdom with his family when he was 12. He joined the British Army in 2004. After completing his training for the Intelligence Corps at DISC, Chicksands, he was attached to 14 Signals Regiment, of the Royal Signals in January 2006 before being sent to Afghanistan.
Signalman Kenneth Smith GC (7 December 1920 – 10 January 1945) was a British Soldier of the Royal Corps of Signals, who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the bravery he showed on the night of 10 January 1945 on the island of Ist in the Adriatic when attached to the Long Range Desert Group.
Ruby Sheffield has supported the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal since the age of four. Ruby, 10, among youngest attendees to join veterans at 2024 Poppy Appeal launch Skip to main content
'A' Corps Signals was reconstituted at Aldershot in 1923, now as part of the new Royal Corps of Signals, and was raised to a lieutenant-colonel's command the following year. Until Supplementary Reserve units were raised in the 1920s to take over, 'A' Corps Signals was also responsible for GHQ communications.