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Revision as of 14:01, 23 April 2015
The Signal Division of the Naval Staff was the constituent part of the Royal Navy's Naval Staff responsible for communications. The division was instituted on 18 August, 1917,[1] and emerged from the earlier Signal Section of the Admiralty War Staff set-up in 1914 under Rear-Admiral Sydney Fremantle.
History
On 8 September, 1914, the Admiralty directed that:
the Signal Committee shall be temporarily transferred from Portsmouth to London and attached to the Admiralty War Staff of which it will for the present constitute a Section.[2]
In an Admiralty Memorandum of 18 August, 1917, the Section was upgraded to a Division:
Signal Division will be responsible for all Naval, Mercantile, Allied and Naval and Military: W/T Signalling (including the allocation of all W/T Call-signs other than 'commercial'); S/T Signalling; Visual Signalling(including allocation of pennants); Private and Recognition Signals; Signal Books; Codes and Ciphers; Methods of Drafting, Coding Ciphering and dealing with all messages (whether W/T, S/T, Visual, Landline, or Cable); 'S' Orders and 'SR' Orders … Signal Division is not responsible for either Personnel or Materiel, but will act in an advisory capacity to the departments dealing therewith and should be consulted as necessary.[3]
Directors of the Signal Division
Dates of appointment given:
- Acting Captain Richard L. Nicholson, August, 1917[4]
- Captain Henry K. Kitson, 29 July, 1921[5] – 3 February, 1923[6]
Footnotes
- ↑ Dewar. Encyclopædia Britannica. XXX. p. 6.
- ↑ The National Archives. ADM 116/3403.
- ↑ The National Archives. ADM 116/3404.
- ↑ The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. p. 122.
- ↑ Kitson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 186.
- ↑ Kitson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 186.
Bibliography
- Dewar, Alfred C. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica: The New Volumes. Volume XXX. London: Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Ltd..
- Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division (1929). The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. Its Work and Development. B.R. 1845 (late C.B. 3013). Copy No. 8 at The National Archives. ADM 234/434.
Primary Sources
- The National Archives. ADM 116/3403. Admiralty Signal Division: History. Volume I.
