Profession on a marriage cert

[toni*]

perhaps these may be able to help you?
http://www2.army.mod.uk/royalsignalsmuseum/index.htm

[Graham Whitehead]

I have spoken to a retired Grenadier Guardsman and he thinks that perhaps in the days after semaphore a 'groundsman' in the Royal Signal Corps might have laid out the wires (before the signals became 'wire=less').

[Richard Knott]

Nowadays 'groundsman' refers to someone who is in a team installing aeriels but works on the ground. There is a reference to one in The Wire fairly recently although it may have changed its meaning: http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/TheWire_05Feb.pdf
(see page 39).

Having said that, my father was in the Royal Signals for 30 years and I never heard him refer to a groundsman.

Richard

[stanmapstone]

A Signalman was the lowest rank in the Corps of Signals, the same as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery. As such he was not necessarily occupied in signals (or gunnery), he could have been employed at the headquarters/camp looking after the grounds around the buildings, or the polo grounds for the officers  .

Stan

[annelid]

Thankyou all very much for the replies, they have been very helpful

Anne
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