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Sending a semaphore signal using flags

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Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880. Members of the Middlesex (Victoria Rifles) Volunteers, 4th Volunteer Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, signalling. The man looking through the telescope observes a signal from the previous station on relay and reads it out so it can be sent on by his team to the next station using their flags. Illustration from "Her Majesty's Army". (London, c1880).

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