Royal Corps of Signals
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Sep 14, 2026
Dan CumminsHOST
After her previous relationship had ended, Helen went to Reading to stay with her brother.
Dan CumminsHOST
She'd met George, a lance corporal in the Royal Corps of Signals, one of the combat support arms of the British Army.
Dan CumminsHOST
Uh, they had had two boys together, David and Michael.
Dan CumminsHOST
The family followed George when he was sent to Germany, but Helen didn't like it there, moved to Glasgow to live with, uh, her mother in March of nineteen sixty-nine.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Here are the participants in case number 693MR966.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Lance Corporal John Latimer of the Royal Corps of Signals.
John LatimerVOICE_ACTOR
Was my lorry right enough?
speaker_3NARRATOR
Signaler Lewis Ruling of the same company.
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John DavidsonVOICE_ACTOR
Was there any markings on it, Miss Hartley?
Inga HartleyVOICE_ACTOR
Of course.
Inga HartleyVOICE_ACTOR
It was a Royal Corps of Signals lorry.
Robert LesterNARRATOR
How did you know?
Bob BazleyGUEST
You know, I can talk about myself and all the things that I've done in my life, but and i've i've done lots of different things i've worn many different hats so at age 16 i joined the british army and i was in the british army for six and a half years and and i did okay with that and i traveled parts of the world and but i also you know when i left the british army i got a job with an investment bank called merrill lynch and then and i started at the very bottom of in Hamburg and Berlin in Germany, and just sending orders to buy stocks and shares for the various financial consultants that were in the brokerage office there.
Bob BazleyGUEST
I was a wiring operator, and I got the job because I could type, because I was in the Royal Corps of Signals in the army.
Ania HulsmanHOST
And
Bob BazleyGUEST
what I realized is that when I applied my mind to things, I could see problems clearly, and I could see the answers even more clear.
Tony CollinsGUEST
And so B- Billy made a name.
Tony CollinsGUEST
He played in the f- for the, uh, Royal Signals Regiment in the final of the Army Rugby Union Cup and scored six tries.
Tony CollinsGUEST
And if he wasn't on the horizon of every Rugby League club before that, he definitely was then.
Tony CollinsGUEST
And he had discussions with Hunslet, and he also had discussions with, uh, with Workington, uh, led by the great Gus Wiseman, also another great Cardiff Welsh player.
Matthew BannisterHOST
Despite showing promise with Cardiff School Boys, Billy wasn't selected by the Cardiff Rugby Union club, thanks, he believed, to the color of his skin.
Matthew BannisterHOST
During national service, he played for the Royal Signals in Catterick, where his talent was spotted by rugby league scouts, who were on the lookout for a new player to sign for Wigan.
Matthew BannisterHOST
Their offer presented Billy with a dilemma.
Matthew BannisterHOST
Should he take the life-changing money and switch codes from rugby union to rugby league, even though the bitter enmity between the two codes in those days meant he would never get the chance to play for Wales?
Tom CuiHOST
You do?
TobinGUEST
I wanna get into the Royal Signals.
Tom CuiHOST
Oh, wow, okay, okay.
TobinGUEST
Yeah.