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The Troop was the first formal professional body of signallers in the British Army and its duty was to provide communications for a field army by means of visual signalling, mounted orderlies and telegraph. By 1871, 'C' Troop had expanded in size from 2 officers and 133 other ranks to 5 officers and 245 other ranks.
Director Information and Army Chief Information Officer: Royal Signals: 1 March 2024 [10] Jonathan Edward Alexander Chestnutt: Deputy Chief of Staff Headquarters Field Army Master General of Logistics: Royal Logistic Corps: CBE: 22 April 2024 [40] Philip A. J. McNee: Surgeon-General of the United Kingdom Armed Forces: Royal Army Medical Corps ...
David McDowall (British Army officer) Sir Frank Meyer, 2nd Baronet; Godwin Michelmore; Sir Harold Mitchell, 1st Baronet; Osbert Mordaunt (cricketer, born 1876) Louis Miles Muggleton; John Muirhead (solicitor) Gordon Murray (puppeteer)
He became commanding officer of 3rd (UK) Division Signal Regiment in 2012 and was deployed to Afghanistan. [2] He went on to be commander of 1st Signal Brigade in August 2016, [3] Director of Personnel Policy (Pay and Allowances) at the Ministry of Defence in May 2019 [4] and Director-General, Army Personnel in January 2021.
McDowall joined the British Army as a private in the Royal Corps of Signals at the age of 18. [1] He was commissioned into the corps in 1981, [2] and later commanded a squadron in operations in Northern Ireland and a regiment in operations during the Bosnian War. [1]
The Royal Signals trades are the employment specialisations of the Royal Corps of Signals in the British Army. Every soldier in the Corps is trained both as a field soldier and a tradesman. There are currently six different trades, all of which is open to both men and women:
Lieutenant General Sir Nicholas Arthur William Pope, KCB, CBE (born 1962) is a former senior British Army officer. He served as the last Master-General of the Ordnance from 2011 to 2013 when the position was abolished and then as Deputy Chief of the General Staff from 2015 to 2019.
Major General Archibald (Archie) Cull Birtwistle, CB CBE DL (19 August 1927 — 18 March 2009) was a British military signals officer. [1]Born in Northwich, Cheshire, Birtwistle was educated at Sir John Deane's College (then SJD's Grammar School).