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Telegraph troops are responsible for the establishment of their own side’s telegraphic communications in war and for the disruption of the enemy’s telegraphic communications. The telegraph troops created in Prussia in 1830 within the New Prussian engineer battalions were established as a separate corps in 1899, which subsequently became the Signal Corps of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS. Its modern successors are the signal troops and electronic warfare troops. It predecessors used various optical telegraphic systems. == Historical development in European armies == * Portugal created a Military Telegraph Corps in 1810, having a field telegraph company since 1884; * The German Empire and France had no telegraph troops in peacetime until the late 19th century. *England had, in peacetime, one telegraph battalion of two divisions, of which one was permanently equipped and ready for war, whilst the other was allocated to the national civil telegraph administration. *Italy had three telegraph units, comprising two companies each, and which belonged to the 3rd Engineer Regiment; * The Common Army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a railway and telegraph regiment with two battalions of four companies each; *Russia had 17 wartime (field)telegraph parks, which were part of their sapper brigades. *Belgium, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and Spain each had a telegraph company in peacetime. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Telegraph troops」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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