Canadian Forces Station Gloucester was a wireless
HFDF intercept station near
Ottawa
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,
Ontario.
The site opened as Number 1 Station HMCS Bytown (1943), with name changes to HMC NRS Gloucester (1950), HMCS Gloucester (1950), and finally CFS Gloucester (1966) till the closure in 1972.
The station had the nickname ''No 1'' and was the site for SigInt training in Canada till closure had the school move to
CFB Kingston for its new home at the
Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics (CFSCE), Echo Squadron.
One role of the station during the war years was the radio location of German U-boats in the North Atlantic. Until the
Unification of the Canadian Armed Forces in 1968, the unit often provided ceremonial platoons at public events in Ottawa while representing the RCN.
The motto was ''Knowledge through Discipline''.
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* {{cite web, title=History of Canadian CESM - HMCS Gloucester, accessdate=2021-09-17, url=http://www.rcsigs.ca/index.php/History_of_Canadian_CESM#HMCS_GLOUCESTER
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