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1st Corps Signals History 1885-1947
7th Signal Regiment pre-dates the Corps and was
known by the following names:
1885 - Telegraph Battalion RE
1905 - 2nd Division, Telegraph Battalion RE
1907 - 1st Airline Company RE & 2nd Airline Company
RE
1911 - Merged as 'A' Corps Signal Company RE
1914 - 1st Corps Signal Company RE
1914 - In December of this year, split into 1st Army Signal Company
& 1st Corps Signal Company
1919 - Cadre1922 - 'A' Corps Signals
1939 - 1st Corps Signals
1942 - 1st Lines of Communication Signals
1943 - 1st Corps Signals
1946 - 1st Corps District Signal Regiment
1947 - Disbanded
In 1914 1st Corps Signal Company RE was formed for the Headquarters
1 Corps with which it served on the Western Front throughout the First World
War. After the war it was reduced to a cadre from which the newly formed
Signals Corps was reconstituted in 1923. In 1924 it became a Lieutenant
Colonel’s command. In 1939 the unit was re-designated 1st Corps
Signals and again went with the 1 Corps to France as part of the British
Expeditionary Force. After the Dunkirk evacuation it was stationed in
Yorkshire. In April 1942 a large part of the Unit was used for the re-forming
of No 1 Line of Communications Signals. 1st Corps Signals was
reconstituted in 1943. It took part in the Normandy Landings of 1944 and the
subsequent operations in Northwest Europe. At the end of the war it was
stationed in Germany, becoming 1st Corps District Signal Regiment,
rising in strength at one stage to 9 squadrons including one Auxiliary
Territorial Force and two captured signal companies of the Wehrmacht. It was
disbanded in 1947.
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