signalman

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Tarr followed with “The Man From London,” which he and Krasznahorkai adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, about a seaside railway signalman who confronts a moral quandary involving a murder mystery.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

Jacobs was 17 when he joined the Navy in November 1944, after D-Day, and became a Navy signalman.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024

The first lady was one of those kids; she’s the daughter of a Navy signalman.

From Washington Times • Sep. 26, 2023

After the ship took him to the South Korean city of Busan, on the peninsula’s southern coast, he served as a signalman in the South’s army.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022

Will remembered that the signalman at the junction was in the pay of General Carabaño, so that the omission of what would otherwise have been an essential precaution was explicable.

From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert