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Signals Command - January 1959


[Central Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
No 635 Signals Unit (Barkway) Barkway GEE Monitor
C & M Party RAF Bishopbriggs  
RAF Station Cheadle
  • No 219 Signals Unit (Kinnaber)
Stoke on Trent
  • Kinnaber

Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))

 

 

No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Chigwell  
RAF Station Digby    
No 399 Signals Unit RAF Digby Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
No 591 Signals Unit RAF Digby  
No 7907 Reserve Flight RAF Digby  
No 7913 Reserve Flight RAF Digby  
Satellite, RAF Digby Mere Branston  
Meteorological Communications Centre Dunstable  
Northern Ireland (Dundonald) Signals Centre RAF Edenmore Station in Fighter Command
Gloucester Telecommunications Office RAF Gloucester Station in Home Command
No 7906 Reserve Flight RAF Gloucester  
South West Signals Centre Hawthorn  
No 7904 Reserve Flight Hawthorn  
North-West Signals Centre Haydock  
No 7902 Reserve Flight Haydock  
Civilian Aerial Erectors' Unit RAF Hendon Station in Home Command
Radio Engineering Unit RAF Henlow Station in TTC
No 8 (Addu Atoll) Radio Fitting Party RAF Henlow  
No 10 (Aden) Radio Fitting Party RAF Henlow  
Special Signals Unit RAF Kidbrooke Station in Home Command
No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Kinloss Station in Coastal Command
RAF Signals Centre (London) London (Whitehall Gardens)  
No 7905 Reserve Flight London (Whitehall Gardens)  
RAF Station Medmenham    
Radio Introduction Unit RAF Medmenham Functionally controlled by AM (D Rad Eng)
Inspectorate of Radio Services RAF Medmenham Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (S))
AM Book Production and Distribution Centre RAF Medmenham  
No 7911 Reserve Flight RAF Medmenham  
Eastern Signals Centre Newmarket  
No 7909 Reserve Flight Newmarket  
RAF Station Norton    
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Norton  
No 585 Signals Unit (Oxenhope Moor) Oxenhope Moor  
RAF Station Pucklechurch    
No 323 Signals Unit (St Twynnells) St Twynnells  
No 428 Signals Unit (Sennen) Sennen GEE Slave
No 899 Signals Unit (Sharpitor) Sharpitor GEE Master
No 313 Signals Unit (Sparsholt Firs) Sparsholt Firs  
No 4 Signals Unit (Stenigot) Stenigot GEE Slave
No 345 Signals Unit (Swingate) Swingate GEE
RAF Station Tangmere    
No 115 Sqn RAF Tangmere Varsity/Hastings
No 245 Sqn RAF Tangmere Canberra/Varsity
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Tangmere  
South East Signals Centre RAF Uxbridge Station in TTC
Central Signals Establishment RAF Watton Lincoln
No 51 Sqn RAF Watton Canberra/Comet
No 407 Signals Unit (Worth Matravers) Worth Matravers GEE Slave & Monitor
RAF Station Wythall    
HQ, No 7 RAF Police District RAF Wythall Functionally controlled by DPM (UK)
No 7914 (Misc) Reserve Flight RAF Wythall Functionally controlled by AM (DPS (PM))

 

Central Signals Area

HQ - Stanbridge

Unit Location/Address Notes
No 81 Signals Unit (Chicksands) RAF Chicksands  
No 810 Signals Unit (Edlesborough) Edlesborough  
No 962 Signals Unit (Greatworth)    
RAF Central Signals Centre RAF Stanbridge Section of Technical Wing, RAF Stanbridge
No 7901 Reserve Flight RAF Stanbridge  
RAF Bletchley   Satellite, Stanbridge
No 593 Signals Unit (Stoke Hammond) Stoke Hammond  
No 285 Signals Unit (Weyhill) Weyhill  

 

Signals Command, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Deopham Green Watton  
Filton Pucklechurch  
Marston Montgomery Cheadle  
Mere Branston (MF/DF) Digby  
Poling Tangmere  
Shipdham Watton  

Source - SD161 (220th Edition) - January 1959

[Central Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

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