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<blockquote>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.<ref>The National Archives. ADM 116/3403.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>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.<ref>The National Archives. ADM 116/3403.</ref></blockquote> | ||
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| + | In an Admiralty Memorandum of 18 August, 1917, the Section was upgraded to a Division: | ||
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| + | <blockquote>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.<ref>The National Archives. ADM 116/3404.</ref></blockquote> | ||
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
Revision as of 11:18, 30 December 2010
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]
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Template:BibUKNavalStaff
- Dewar, Alfred Charles (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica: The New Volumes. Volume XXX. London: Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Ltd..
Primary Sources
- The National Archives. ADM 116/3403. Admiralty Signal Division: History. Volume I.
