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The most widely accepted origin is a Royal Signals boxer, Jimmy Emblen, who was the British Army Champion in 1924 and represented the Royal Corps of Signals from 1921 to 1924. [24] The first use so far recorded of "Jimmy" in this context is to be found in the (RE) Signal Service Training Camp magazine, The Wire, June 1920.
Lanchester submachine gun – British submachine gun, developed from the German MP28, used by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.; Sten – simple design, low-cost British submachine gun in service from late 1941 to the end of the war.
3rd Signal Group (V) (1967—1975) 4th Signal Group (1969—1992) 12th Signal Group (1967—1982), later 12th Signal Brigade; 13th Signal Group (V) (1967—1972) Headquarters, Radio Group British Army of the Rhine (1963—1977) Headquarters, Communications and Security Group (United Kingdom) Headquarters, Royal Signals Malta
List of World War II weapons of the United States; Captured US firearms in Axis use in World War II; List of World War II weapons of Yugoslavia; See also
The following is a list of British military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. This also would largely apply to Commonwealth of Nations countries in World War II like Australia, India and South Africa as the majority of their equipment would have been British as they were at that time part of the British Empire.
44th Field Cash Office, Royal Army Pay Corps III Corps Signals, Royal Corps of Signals 1/9th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment (Machine-Guns) III Corps Postal Unit, Royal Engineers 78th Company, Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps III Corps Troops Ammunition Column, Royal Army Service Corps III Corps Ammunition Company, Royal Army Service Corps
The Royal Armoured Corps. London: Methuen. — Royal Armoured Corps; Nalder, Reginald F. H. (1953). The History of the British Army Signals in the Second World War. Aldershot: Royal Signals Institution. — Royal Corps of Signals; Packenham-Walsh, R. P. (1958). History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Vol. 8– 9. Chatham (Kent): Institution of ...
50 (Northumbrian) Signal Regiment was a Territorial Army (TA) unit of the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals. It had its origins in a signal company and a cyclist battalion formed in 1908 and it provided the divisional signals for the 50th (Northumbrian) Division and its duplicates during World War II. Its successors continued in the postwar ...