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CLEANING UP in NORTH AFRICA: And Other War Pictures from the Atlantic and Sicilian Battlefronts

... CLEANING UP in NORTH AFRICA And Other War Pictures from the Atlantic and Sicilian Battlefronts WILL IT BE THE SAME IN SICILY An Army salvage dump in North Africa made up of Axis armoured cars and tanks waiting to be dismantled. Now that the campaign is ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 438 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

The Last Ounce

... He ie a South African and was Secretary last year and was elected President for last October. He flew back from South Africa when war broke out to do what he could to keep athletics going at Cambridge. A DISCUS RECORD His 134 ft. si in. established a new ...

MR. RANDOLPH CHURCHILL MARRIED MISS JUNE OSBORNE

... bridegroom was Conservative M.P. for Preston from 1940 until the last General Election. He was a Staff Officer in North Africa during the war and served with his regiment, the 4th Hussars. Later he was parachuted into Yugoslavia, and served as liaison officer ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 95 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... DUTIES: LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR HENRY MAITLAND WILSON WITH THE NATIVE HEADMEN OF A VILLAGE IN LIBYA Qf all the theatres of war, Africa has swiftly repaid Britain for her foresight and drive with the conquest of Cyrenaica by Wavell's Army of the Nile, the ...

Published: Saturday 22 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE QUEEN: Major Harvey with His Family in Surrey

... year, will be visiting familiar territory when he accompanies the Royal Family on their forthcoming tour of South Africa During the war he was in the Scots Guards and fought with the 24th Gua Brigade attached to the South African Armoured Division, and ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 254 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

Potato Culture in Africa

... Potato Culture in Africa Before the war potatoes were grown in small quantities in the Zaria province of Nigeria, but the great bulk of West African re quirements were imported from Europe. When supplies ceased, owing to the shipping shortage, the Nigerian ...

NEW NATURE STUDIES: The Deadly Black Widow and the Venomous African Cobra

... prove his point, he has just carried out a demonstration with one of a batch of cobras which are the first to come from Africa since the war they had been on the sea for six weeks and were probably the hungriest cobras in existence. In the first picture above ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 874 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

WILLIAM MOLLISON, PRODUCER OF ONE HUNDRED SHOWS

... as ever, Bill accepted an offer to go to South Africa on tour. War broke out he volunteered, and spent the next three-and-a-half years soldiering in the wildest parts of Africa. Then came the end of the war and I returned to civilian life terrified that ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1187 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

Farming ... for Wheat: Just Fourteen Man-Minutes to Produce a Bushel

... of the American armies in North Africa during the war. He spied out the land for farming and decided that his methods could be modified in order to increase greatly the productivity of the French colonies in North Africa. Recently, officials of the French ...

A WAR NEWSLETTER---No. 242

... do not want to fall back again to the reminder that in 1940 we stood alone, nor even to the reminder that we cleared Africa. For war goes marching on, like Russia. And even in the air, by the accident of the gradual stepping-up of the U.S. air assaults ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2073 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs