#signaller

[my-darling-boy]

Somehow my signaller idea turned into an old Saturday Evening Post cover. Why is a British soldier on an American magazine, We Don’t Know

[danielflemingart]

Signals.

8x14″

Mixed media on bristol

[milfitinstitute]

Military Ranks: Signalman

Introduction Signalman was a US Navy rating for sailors that specialised in visual communication. British Usage British Army In the British Army’s Royal Corps of Signals, a private soldier’s rank is a Signalman. Non-Royal Signals operators are referred to as Signallers; this is a qualification and not a rank. United States Usage US Navy A signal lamp (also called an Signal Searchlight) is…

Military Ranks: Signalman

[whitewaterstraining]

All you need to know Slinger Signaller| WWT

Slinger Signaller’s primary duty is to safeguard the operators' safety and any other employees or site visitors who may be in danger.

[oledavyjones]

A signaller operates an Aldis lamp on board a British warship, 1942. 

 © IWM (TR 91)

[fromthesomewhere]

26 August 1915 - Letter to Father from Otterpool Camp, Kent, England

Fred writes a short letter home in order to make sure it goes out with the “Canadian mail” that day. He reports that he received his first mail from Canada the past Tuesday (24th of August), but no news from his family. He writes his intention to go visit Arthur and see if he had received any letters from home.

Fred tells his father about starting a 3-week signaller training course, and that if he “qualified” at the end he gained the right to wear the “little flags” on his sleeves. He notes that the “buzzer and telephone with the Morse” are seen as the most important things to study.

Fred writes home of his plans to travel around while in England. and of a local tour around Ashford. He also fills his family in on the return of horses and “18-pounders” to the training grounds, and training with men who had already been to the front lines.