The regiment forms part of 1st (United Kingdom) Signal Brigade, providing military communications for national operations.

1st Lanarkshire Voluntary Military Engineers was raised in Glasgow on 5 December 1859 as part of the Volunteer Force.

[2] As part of the 1908 Haldane Reforms, the unit became the Lowland Divisional Telegraph Company.

After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the regiment was sent as part of IV Corps and the British Expeditionary Force to France.

[3] As a result of the 1966 Defence White Paper, the 32nd (Scottish) Signal Regiment was formed on 1 April 1967.