32 ( Scottish ) Signal Regiment The 32nd Signal Regiment is a British Army Reserve Regiment of the Royal Corps of Signals . Regimental heritage . The 1st Lanarkshire Engineer Regiment were raised in Glasgow on 5 December 1859 as part of the Volunteer Force . The regiment was formally registered with the War Office on 27 February 1860 . In 1863 the regiment adopted the uniform of the Royal Engineers . In 1864 the " Corps Training Ground " was established in Maryhill . In 1894 a Telegraph Company was added to the regiment . In 1900 the regiment was chosen to be part of the first operational use of the Volunteer Force and a company of two officers and 99 Other Ranks were sent to the Second Boer War . The regiment undertook its first Annual Camp at Dunoon in 1902 . World War I . As part of the 1908 Haldane Reforms , which created the TA , the regiment became the Glasgow Telegraph Group Royal Engineers . A Wireless , Cable and Airline Company were added and the regiment was established as a Field Company to support 51st Highland Division . After the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the Glasgow Group RE was disbanded and the regiment was sent as part of IV Corps and the British Expeditionary Force to France . The regiment saw action at the 1st Battle of Ypres and had the distinction of being the first reserve regiment to take part in active service in the campaign . World War II . On reforming the Territorial Army in 1920 , 52nd Lowland Division Signal Company reformed at Maryhill . On 28 June that year the Royal Corps of Signals was formed and the regiment changed uniform and cap badge . During World War II the regiment again saw active service in support of both 51st Highland and 52nd Lowland Divisions in the European theatre . On reforming the TA in 1947 , the regiment returned once again to Maryhill as the 51st / 52nd ( Scottish ) Infantry Division Signal Regiment . A small part of the regiment became the 82nd Army Emergency Reserve ( AER ) . The regiment was retitled 52nd Lowland Infantry Division Signal Regiment in 1948 . Post War . As a result of the 1966 Defence White Paper , a major reorganisation of the Army took place , caused by the end of National Service , with the TA being disbanded and the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve ( TAVR ) formed . Instead of forming large reserve formations , the role of the new TAVR was to provide individual and unit - sized reinforcements for the Regular Army . The 32nd ( Scottish ) Signal Regiment was created as a TAVR II being formed on 1 April 1967 . The new regiment was composed of five squadrons , amalgamating the four Signals Regiments in Scotland . They were : The regiment gained a sixth squadron in 1969 , when a Squadron of North Irish Horse became 69 ( North Irish Horse ) Signal Squadron . The regiment was reduced to five squadrons in the early 1970s upon the disbandment of 82 Squadron . Due to Options for Change , 69 Squadron transferred to 40 ( Ulster ) Signal Regiment in 1995 . In 1999 , due to the reforms implemented by the Strategic Defence Review , 52nd Squadron was re - titled as 52 ( Lanarkshire and Glasgow Yeomanry ) Signal Squadron due to the disbandment of B ( Lanarkshire and Queen ' s Royal Glasgow Yeomanry ) Squadron , The Scottish Yeomanry , which became part of the Queen ' s Own Yeomanry ; This title however did not achieve popular use , and the traditional title of 52nd ( Lowland ) Signal Squadron was used up to restructuring in 2008 . At this point the title of 52 ( Lowland ) was transferred to the existing Headquarters Squadron to form 52 ( Lowland ) Support Squadron , this completed a journey of 9 years between 99 and 2008 when the 52 ( Lowland ) Squadron was away from its home of Jardine Street on the banks of the River Kelvin . The existing infrastructure and personnel were renamed 852 ( Lanarkshire ) Signal Troop and 863 ( Lothian ) Signal Troop becoming part of the new 51st ( Scottish ) Signal Squadron based upon the Squadron Headquarters of the former 61st ( City of Edinburgh ) Signal Squadron . Another journey was completed in October 2010 when 69 ( North Irish Horse ) Signal Squadron returned to the Regiment after a 15 year hiatus . The Squadron rejoined as 40 ( North Irish Horse ) Signal Squadron . Current Locations and Operations . The Regimental Headquarters is situated in North Kelvinside , Glasgow and after recent re - organisations in 2014 the regiment currently has four squadrons based throughout Scotland and Northern Ireland , with a detached Troop in York that is collocated with our paired Regular Regiment , 2 Signal Regiment : The Regiment is part of 2 Signal Group within 11th Signal Brigade and HQ West Midlands . The Regiment provides Informations Communication Services support to Operations within the UK , but in particular to the Commanders of the Regional ( Brigades ) Points of Command ( RPOC ) : With secure Command and Control communications facilities to execute their Regional Points of Command responsibilities in Scotland and Northern Ireland . The main capabilities to support this are provided by Deployable Communications Detachments using the REEBOK LAN infrastructure , Mobile Signal Detachments using Bowman , Airwave and Inmarsat . The regiment also maintains a long - standing affiliation with the Queen ' s Own Gurkha Signals that began in 1967 . But its key partnering arrangement is with 2 Signal Regiment based in York ; the Regiment has a Troop ( Kohima Troop ) embedded at Imphal Barracks . Recent operational deployments as a unit have included Operation Giraffe - the Cumbrian floods of 2009 and the creation of Barkers Crossing , Operation Fresco , Operation Tosca , the 31st G8 summit at Gleneagles , the 39th G8 summit in Northern Ireland and in 2014 support to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow . Many members have also served alongside their regular counterparts on operations all over the world , including on Operation TELIC in Iraq and Operation Herrick in Afghanistan .