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Pictures in the Fire: His Majesty's Win--Its Value

... General Sir Maitland Wilson, now commanding the British Forces in Greece in the fiercest and nearly the first real fight we have had with the Boche. It is a scrap which must be particularly after his own heart, for General Jumbo Wilson is rated as about ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1975 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire: Electric Hair

... Captain Eric Charles Wilson, East Surrey Regiment, attached to the Somaliland Camel Corps, kept a gun post in action for four days in spite of wounds, malaria, and intense fire from the enemy1 s field artillery was reported killed and posthumously awarded ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1843 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

THREE HUNDRED DAYS OF MATCHLESS WARFARE: The Campaign in the Eastern Mediterranean--A Classic of Co-operation ..

... ahead. Serious damage to other warships was effected, and our total casualties in winning a decisive action were under ten killed of the splendid Fleet Air Arm. Thereafter, the Mediterranean Fleet went all out. It executed periodical sweeps in all waters ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2044 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

Way of the War: Canada Bound

... the attention of the Law Officers. Britain' s Enlightened Strategists T AST week's announcement that Lt.-Gen. Sir Maitland Wilson has been appointed Military Governor, as well as G.O.C.-in-C., Libya, assisted by a political branch set up at General He ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2700 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

SYRIA and its NATIVE PROBLEMS: A Diversified Land Occupied by Many Races, the Proper Settlement of Which May ..

... Australian and Indian soldiers who had volunteered to join the Imperial Forces in order to defend France should have been killed or wounded by French bullets. The campaign lasted a full month. Many were in clined to be critical over the slow progress ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1904 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs