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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Montgomery Phillpotts|nick=Edward M. Phillpotts|appt=?|as=Also as [[Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord]]}} (Head of Signal Section on 18 August, 1917. | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Montgomery Phillpotts|nick=Edward M. Phillpotts|appt=?|as=Also as [[Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord]]}} (Head of Signal Section on 18 August, 1917.<ref>See Docket dated 17 August, 1917. {{TNA|ADM 116/3403.}}</ref> | ||
{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Richard Lindsay Nicholson|nick=Richard L. Nicholson|appt=5 January, 1918 – 15 November, 1919<ref>Nicholson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.}} f. 475.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Richard Lindsay Nicholson|nick=Richard L. Nicholson|appt=5 January, 1918 – 15 November, 1919<ref>Nicholson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.}} f. 475.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Karslake Kitson|nick=Henry K. Kitson|appt=29 July, 1921<ref>Kitson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 186.</ref>|end=3 February, 1923<ref>Kitson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 186.</ref>|as=Director of the Signal Department}} | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Karslake Kitson|nick=Henry K. Kitson|appt=29 July, 1921<ref>Kitson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 186.</ref>|end=3 February, 1923<ref>Kitson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 186.</ref>|as=Director of the Signal Department}} | ||
Revision as of 10:19, 5 January 2016
The Signal Division was the constituent part of the Royal Navy's Naval Staff responsible for communications. The division was instituted on 18 August, 1917 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.[1]
In an Admiralty "Office Memorandum" of 18 August, 1917, the Section was "recognised as a separate division of the Naval Staff."[2]
The Signal Division will be responsible for all Naval, Mercantile, Allied and Naval & Military:-
W/T Signalling (including the allocation of all W/T Call Signs other than "commercial"). including all correspondence, and preparing, printing and "establishment" of all the necessary books and Instructions in connection therewith S/T Signalling Visual Signalling (including allocation of all Pendants) Private and Recognition Signals Signal Books Codes Cyphers Methods of Drafting, Coding & Cyphering, and dealing with all messages (whether W/T, S/T, Visual, Land Line or Cable). "S" Orders "SR" Orders The 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 by them as necessary.
Directors
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Edward M. Phillpotts, ? (Head of Signal Section on 18 August, 1917.[3]
- Acting Captain Richard L. Nicholson, 5 January, 1918 – 15 November, 1919[4]
- Captain Henry K. Kitson, 29 July, 1921[5] – 3 February, 1923[6]
- Captain Guy W. Hallifax, 1 October, 1934[7] – 31 October, 1935[8]
Someone with the last name Murray preceded Hallifax.[9]
Footnotes
- ↑ The National Archives. ADM 116/3403.
- ↑ Docket entitled "Division of Responsibility for Wireless Telegraphy Work." The National Archives. ADM 116/3404. Our reproduction is far more accurate than the bastardisation which appears in Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 321.
- ↑ See Docket dated 17 August, 1917. The National Archives. ADM 116/3403.
- ↑ Nicholson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 475.
- ↑ Kitson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 186.
- ↑ Kitson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 186.
- ↑ Hallifax Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 35.
- ↑ Hallifax Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 35.
- ↑ Hallifax Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 35.
Bibliography
- 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.
