Communications and Electronics Branch (C & E Branch)

In October 2008, the C & E Branch will celebrate 105 years of Military Communications in Canada.

Major Bruce Carruthers
1863 - 1910

W. Bruce M. Carruthers, a Kingston native and hero of the Boer War. He proposed that a specialist signalling corps be created to ensure standardization of signalling among Canadian army units. His proposal was accepted and on 24 October 1903, General Order (GO) 167 authorized formation of the "Canadian Signalling Corps (Militia)" (CSC) - the first independently organized Signal Corps in the British Empire. On 21 October 1910 Bruce Carruthers died in Kingston and was buried in Cataraqui Cemetery.

The History of Canadian Military Communications and Electronics