15th Signal Regiment, Royal Signals

The 15th Signal Regiment, commonly known as 15 Information Systems Signal Regiment is a specialist signals unit of the British Army. The regiment's history goes back to before World War II, and after many disbandments and the regiment today still supports military communications.

Early History
Just before World War II, the Egypt Signals unit was formed. This unit was tasked with providing communications and signals support to the army units based in the Egypt Area. Their area of responsibility included; Egypt, Palestine, Sudan, and later Cyprus. During this time, the unit was collectively known as Egypt Command Signals. The regiment had a 2 later 3 company structure with the following units and locations in 1939;


 * Command Headquarters in Cairo under Lieuteannt Colonel J W Bailey MC (HQ Included Quartermasters and Technical Maintenance Section)
 * No. 1 Signals Company in Cairo under Major E L Farnall
 * No. 3 Signals Company in Cairo under Major H J Wiseman

In 1938, the 1936–1939 Arab revolts were spreading and becoming more widespread. Following these increasing revolts, the regiment left the area's signals support role to the 7th and 8th Infantry Divisional signals after they moved in later that year.

In 1940, the 8th Infantry Division was broken up following the end of the revolts and this led to many other separate signals units to merge as General Headquarters Signals, Middle East. After their formation, the regiment was based in Cairo with their HQ under General Archibald Percival Wavell in his role as General-Officer Commanding, Middle East Command. During 1940, following the Italian's entry in the war, the regiment's role changed mainly from mostly Civilian to Military Support. Their support ranged from providing signals and communications for units in Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, The Balkans, and later Eastern Africa. The Western Desert Force and British Troops in Egypt formed signals unit to support the GHQ signals regiment. By 1943, the Western Desert Campaign was started to wrap up, and the regiment's workload was significantly reduced to support only the GHQ and the GHQ for Troops in Palestine.

Following the end of the war, the regiment was retitled in 1946 as the 3rd General Headquarters Signal Regiment. Although the regiment's name changed, its role didn't and it continued to support GHQ Middle East. In 1947, the regiment moved to Moascar in the Suez Canal Zone and then to Episkopi in Cyprus in 1955. Following their move to Cyprus, it only made the Situation worse for military members on the Island. As a result of this, the EOKA terrorists increased their activities on the Island.

In 1959, Middle East Command was disbanded and slit into two new formations, British Forces Suez Canal and British Forces Arabian Peninsula. As a result of this change, the regiment was renamed as 15th (Cyprus) Signal Regiment. After their rename the regiment started to only provide signals support to the units on the island. One of the regiment's main tasks while being based on the island was to provide communications for the specialist artillery units based on operations and training there. On 30 September 1960, the Cyprus Signal Regiment was renamed and their tasks transferred over to the regiment. In 1963 the EOKA started to end their terrorist assaults and as a result, the British Forces Cyprus were reduced by mand regiments. As a result of this drawdown,the regiment was disbanded.