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No 90 (Signals) Group - January 1947

[Central Signals Establishment | Central Development Unit | Northern Signals Area | Central Signals Area | Southern Signals Area]

HQ - 'Danesfield Court', Medmenham, Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Central Signals Establishment

RAF Watton

Unit Location/Address Notes
LRCR D/F Station Lagens, Azores  
LRCR D/F Station Sungerdi, Iceland  
RAF Station Shepherd's Grove    
RAF Tibenham    
No 5091 (Polish) Mobile Signals Unit (Type 'C') RAF Watton  
No 5438 (Polish) Mobile Signals Unit (Type 'Q') RAF Watton  
No 55070 (Polish) Mobile Signals Unit (Type 'CB') RAF Watton  

Central Development Unit

RAF West Drayton

Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Baginton    
No 2 Storage Unit RAF Baginton  
RAF Station Iver    
Detachment of POW Camp, West Drayton RAF Iver  
RAF Station West Drayton    
Signals Development Unit RAF West Drayton  
Overseas Packing Unit RAF West Drayton  
Communication Development Section RAF West Drayton  
POW Camp RAF West Drayton  

Northern Signals Area

HQ - Boston Spa

Unit Location/Address Notes
Ballywattick AMES Northern Ireland  
C & M Party RAF Ballywattick  
Bard Hill AMES Salthouse, Holt, Norfolk  
Bempton AMES Grange Farm, Bempton East Yorkshire  
Benacre AMES Wrentham, Lowestoft, Suffolk  
RAF Station Blackbrook Haydock, Lancashire  
North-West Signals Centre RAF Blackbrook  
Bradwell AMES    
C & M Party RAF Bradwell  
Burifa Hill AMES    
Consul Station Bushmills, Co Antrim  
RAF Station Cheadle
  • C & M Party
  • No 5 D/F Station
  • No 6 D/F Station
  • No 8 D/F Station
  • No 3 D/F Station
  • No 2 D/F Station
  • No 4 D/F Station
 Stoke on Trent
  • Dilhorne
  • Highbridge
  • Lands End
  • Marston Montgomery
  • Mere Branston
  • Montrose
  • Sutton Valence
  
Clee Hill AMES Ludlow, Shropshire  
Daventry AMES Northamptonshire  
Dimlington AMES Hull  
RAF Station Fazakerley    
C & M Party RAF Fazakerley  
No 2 Western Area Signals Office RAF Gloucester  
Happisburgh AMES Norwich  
Hopton AMES Great Yarmouth  
Humberston AMES Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire  
Langtoft AMES Peterborough  
Neatishead AMES Wrexham, Norfolk  
Patrington AMES Hull, East Yorkshire  
Port Ellen MF DF  Station  
Skendleby AMES Spilsby, Lincolnshire  
Stenigot AMES Louth, Lincolnshire  
Stoke Holy Cross,  AMES Swainsthorpe, Norwich  
RAF Station Sutton Bridge    
Tealing AMES    
Trimmingham AMES Norfolk  
Vik AMES Iceland  
West Beckham, Holt, Norfolk  
W/T Station Winstone  
Winterton AMES Great Yarmouth, Norfolk  
W/T Station Worcester  

Central Signals Area

HQ - Bletchley

Unit Location/Address Notes
Teleprinter School RAF Cardington  
RAF Station Chicksands Shefford, Bedfordshire  
European Signals Centre RAF Chicksands  
Air Ministry Monitoring Centre RAF Chicksands  
W/T Station Dagnall  
Meteorological Centre Dunstable  
W/T Station Greatworth  
W/T Station Monks Riseborough  
RAF Central Signals Centre RAF Stanbridge  
W/T Station Stoke Hammond  
W/T Station Weyhill  

Southern Signals Area

HQ - RAF Detling

Unit Location/Address Notes
Barkway AMES Royston Hertfordshire  
Bawdsey AMES Suffolk  
C & M Party Bodmin  
Boniface Down AMES Ventnor, Isle of Wight  
Bullbarrow Hill AMES Dorset  
Canewdon AMES Rochford, Essex  
Fairlight AMES Hastings  
Gibbett Hill AMES Hindhead  
Great Bromley AMES Colchester  
Hawkshill Down AMES Walmer  
South West Signals Centre Hawthorne  
Kidbrooke AMES London  
North Foreland AMES Kent  
Pevensey AMES Sussex  
Poling AMES Sussex  
Ringstead AMES Dorset  
Rye AMES Isle of Wight  
St Margarets Bay AMES Dover  
Sandwich AMES Kent  
Sennen AMES Cornwall  
Sharpitor AMES Yelverton, Devon  
Sopley AMES Christchurch, Hampshire  
Swingate AMES Dover  
The Verne AMES Portland, Dorset  
South West Gee Chain Trerew, Newquay  
Trimley Heath AMES Suffolk  
Truleigh Hill AMES Shoreham, Sussex  
Ventnor AMES Isle of Wight  
Wartling AMES Pevensey  
Welford AMES    
Westcliff AMES Portland, Dorset  
West Prawle AMES Devon  
Worth Matravers AMES Swanage  

Source - SD161 (76th Edition) - January 1947

[Central Signals Establishment | Central Development Unit | Northern Signals Area | Central Signals Area | Southern Signals Area]

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