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Royal Australian Corps of Signals Memorial Painting - "Signals in Action 1914 - 1918"

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Communications Gallery - Centenary of Royal Australian Corps of Signals

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Copy of the painting “Signals in Action 1914-1918” dedicated to the men of the Signal Engineers who served during the 1914-1918 War in Egypt, on Gallipoli, in France and Belgium, in Palestine and Mesopotamia. This painting is one of a pair commissioned by the Royal Australian Corps of Signals and painted by the distinguished war artist, Ivor Heale, CBE. They hang in the foyer of the School of Signals in Watsonia Barracks, Melbourne. They were dedicated by the Chaplains General on 25 June 1972.

Historical information

In World War 1, the work of the signal engineer was restricted mainly to telephony and telegraphy. At the outbreak of World War 2 wireless telegraphy was fully accepted as a primary means of communication.

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cwa-org-32-99-756

Contextual Information

This painting is located in the Communications Gallery commissioned by the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia as part of the Centenary commemorations of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals. Communication devices used by the Australian Army also are presented in their operational context throughout the Museum.

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Signals Cable Wagon

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