Perspective sketches of the operational buildings dotted around the WOYG (War Office Y Group) site, disguised as Estate buildings at Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire. They were disguised to avoid Luftwaffe reconnaissance flights during the Second World War.

Site plans for the Whitchurch Y station in Shropshire

The RSS (Radio Security Service) was formed around December 1939 at Wormwood Scrubs. But prior to this the GPO and the War Office had been taking steps to provide the means of identifying illicit wireless transmissions from early 1938.

The attached is from a GPO War Diary.

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The (un)official logo for the WOYG (War Office Y Group) at Beaumanor Hall during the Second World War

This is Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire, home of the WOYG (War Office Y Group) and one of the main Army SIGINT hubs of the Second World War

Graphic showing the War Office Y Group (WOYG) High Frequency (HF) Direction (DF) network

Manual intercept operator, on duty with the War Office Y Group (WOYG) during the Second World War (from HW41/119)

The all new 'The_Age_of_AI' exhibition is now open at Bletchley Park

Coming soon to TNA Kew....

For over a decade, George Busby has become a specialist in the work of the Radio Security Service at the Gilnahirk Wireless Station in Northern Ireland, during the Second World War. The talk is on 20 March. Tickets are at:
www.niwarmemorial.org/events/north...

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