Communications Collection (#2)

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) on duty at a London Military headquarters during the Second world War. At a London District Military Headquarters, ATS are employed on a variety of jobs

At this invasion port on the South Coast of England, Royal Navy postmen deliver 6000 letters every day to men and women serving in the ships taking part n the operations across the Channel in

Clerks at work in an Army Post Office dealing with letters and parcels returned through incorrect addresses during the Second World War. 17th November 1939

Audrey Hall, aged 16, and Edna Laurence, aged 15, both from the L. C. C
Audrey Hall, aged 16, and Edna Laurence, aged 15, both from the L.C.C. Technical Institute, at work in a sorting office of a local Post Office during the Second World War. 14th December 1943

Submariners, pictured reading the Daily Mirrors Good Morning Newspaper, which was specially published and distributed for the Royal Navy Submarine Service during World War Two

One of a series of pictures showing the work of a Royal Observer Corps Centre where every aircraft, both hostile and friendly, has its course plotted on the operations table

"Speed"is the slogan of the Signals, and the Signals are the arteries of
" Speed" is the slogan of the Signals, and the Signals are the arteries of the Army. In the field it is not always easy for the directing staff to know the position

Winston Churchill in a Churchill tank, using a wireless telephone and wearing a beret of the Royal Tank Regiment. 23 July 1941

Leading Aircraft-man Ivan Wallis of the Royal Air Force of 15 Wokingham Road, Reading, reads his local newspaper the Reading Standard from his post in the Middle East. Circa 1943

Driver W. C. Abery serving in the Royal Army Service CorpsA(RASC) in the Middle East
Driver W.C.Abery serving in the Royal Army Service Corps(RASC) in the Middle East, seen here reading his local newspaper the " Reading standard" during some down time at his camp

Corporal E. W. Stone of the RAF, former schoolmaster at park Lane School, Tilehurst
Corporal E.W. Stone of the RAF, former schoolmaster at park Lane School, Tilehurst, reading his local newspaper the Reading Standard while serving in the Middle East during the Second World War

Lance Corporal C. G. Fowler and Company Quartermaster Sergeant Patey, of Reading
Lance Corporal C.G. Fowler and Company Quartermaster Sergeant Patey, of Reading, Berkshire, read their local newspaper, " The Reading Standard" during some down time while serving in India

Wireless Telegraphists in training transcribing messages in Morse code. 27th January 1942

The Womens Royal Naval Service was the womens branch of the United Kingdoms Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for the First World War, it was disbanded in 1919

RCS men in training. Erecting outside telegraphic communications and wiring. The picture taken at a Western Command Training establishment. Actual location unknown. Picture taken 17th November 1942

Men of the Royal Corps of Signals who provided the land communications required to co-ordinate the air offensive which made possible the Allied victory in Burma

A building in El Salloum being used by the British as a signal station during the Second World War. 12th January 1941

Royal Naval Division signallers send commands to merchant ships waiting to offload their cargoes on to the Normandy beaches ten days after the initial D-day landings. 16th June 1944

Tank commanders talking on radio telephones as part of a table-top exercise with model tanks to learn fresh tactics. Circa 25th November 1941

On the Western Front, the radio provides the link with home and airmen, serving in Belgium and Holland eagerly listen in especially if they are stationed at advanced airfields where no other news

Demolition by Royal Canadian Engineers of a wireless station in the Svalbard Islands during the Spitzbergen Raid. 3rd September 1941

The wireless operator / air gunner of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I of No
The wireless operator/air gunner of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I of No. 206 Squadron RAF based at Bircham Newton, Norfolk, signals with an Aldis lamp to four other aircraft of the Squadron to "

British troops in Eastern Desert. (Picture) A communication trench sandbagged and camouflaged with net. 14th December 1940

Western Approaches Command, Derby House, Liverpool. Which is home to the operations and tactical command for the Battle of the Atlantic

Royal Corps of Signals. (Picture) A line man jointing wire on a permeant line. 6th September 1942

Royal Corps of Signals. Men of the Royal Corps Signals at work at a large formation headquarters. The control, recent and distribution centres in the signals officer also shown

British Army soldiers of the Royal Corps of Signals Regiment, ploughing-in telephone cables in a desert forward area. The RCS are doing a fine job of work in keeping up forward communications

Men of the Royal Corps of Signals at work at a large formation headquarters. The Control, receipt and distribution centres in the signals office are also shown

Radio Telephonists at work beneath a gigantic idol in whose Temple a command post has been set up. Circa 1940

British Troops Land in Albania with the aim to help Marshal Titos Yugoslva Partisan Army and the Albanian patriots in harrassing the German withdrawal from the Balkans

Margaret Thain Davis phoning from a dugout site. 13th March 1944

Reichsender Hamburg radio station now under British control. Lieutenant G. H
Reichsender Hamburg radio station now under British control. Lieutenant G.H.Perry, formerly of the " Daily Mirror" of the Psychological Warfare Branch, who does the station announcements

Policeman on patrol in Mildenhall 15th August 1965

The new production line at the Philco Radio & Television Corporation factory in Perivale, London, where women on the production line are putting the finishing touches to a batch of the new Philco

Newspaper vendor on the Kufurstendamm, Berlin, keeps herself warm with a cup of coffee. Circa 1965

Newspaper vendor on the corner of Rankestrafze, Berlin Circa 1965

CB Radio inside Car, 2nd September 1981

Middlesbrough based Phantom Squadron CB Radio Group members, who recently raised nearly 1000 pounds for the South Cleveland Hospital Kidney Transplant Fund after a 132 hour chat in

Phantom Squadron CB Radio Group, Neil Robinson with fellow members of the club, based in Middlesbrough, 16th February 1983

Wireless telegraph for the infantry. 12th March 1940 Infantryman with the BEF in France, equipped with portable wireless sets for radio telephony

A 25 Pounder shoot. 16th January 1940 Although the war in France still remains a stalemate, as far as the BEF is concerned

Fighter pilots of 73 Squadron RAF warm their hands on a brazier in their underground Duty Office at Rouvres, whilst awaiting orders

Bomber crews receiving instructions in their squadron flight office, some where in France, The Scots Terrier held by the airman on the left is the stations mascot. 5th January 1940

Sir John Anderson visited the standard telephone company, Southgate to inspect the A. R
Sir John Anderson visited the standard telephone company, Southgate to inspect the A.R.P demonstration this afternoon. 7th July 1939

Air traffic controllers in the control tower at Heathrow Airport handling departing and arriving flights. 18th October 1964

They phone Miss Fone. Miss V Fone, quite rightly, is a switchboard operator at Commercial Structures, Ltd. Leyton. 24th October 1935

Daily Mirror war correspondent handing out copies to the troops on the Normandy invasion beaches. 13th June 1944

Anti-Partition girdle around the World. Eamon De Valera and Frank Aiken in America 1948

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