Unit Name: | Royal School of Signals |
Dates: | 1869 – present |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Command Structure: | Defence School of Communications and Information Systems |
Type: | Defence training school |
Role: | Communications and information systems training |
Garrison: | Blandford Camp, Dorset |
Colonel Of The Regiment Label: | Commandant |
The Royal School of Signals is a military training establishment that is part of the United Kingdom's Defence School of Communications and Information Systems. It is at Blandford Camp in Dorset. The soldiers and officers who are attending courses at the school are assigned to the 11th Signal Regiment,[1] the training regiment of the Royal Corps of Signals.
The school was founded in 1869 at Chatham in Kent as the Signal Wing of the Royal School of Military Engineering.[2] It moved to Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire in 1915, Maresfield Park in Sussex in 1920, Catterick Camp in North Yorkshire in 1925 and Blandford Camp in Dorset in 1967.[2] It became the Royal School of Signals in 1992.[2]
The current units controlled by the school include:
The school includes the home of the Cadet Forces Signals Training Team (CFSTT).[5]