The first contingent of Telcom personnel to wear the uniform were 22 of the girl volunteers from the operating staff of the central Telegraph Station in London. They are pictured here on the roof of Electra House, Embankment, with the Chairman, Sir Edward Wilshaw.

THE TELCOM ORGANISATION was formed by arrangement with the War Office in June 1944 to enable personnel of Cable & Wireless Ltd to accompany the armed services in the assault on the Axis powers, in Europe and Asia, as an uniformed force. They were subject to military discipline and to the orders of military Commanders in Chief. Members of the unit were given para-military status and operated on the front line from vehicles known as the ‘blue train’.

The Telcom Unit in Korea 1950’s.	Crest devised by staff of the ‘Blue Train’ in Italy; Mr L G Timms & Mr F S Smith, 1944.

See Also
Second World War Porthcurno at War First World War