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Britain's Silent Sentinels Royal Observer Corps

... Britain's Silent Sentinels Royal Observer Corps AS we watched huge plane flying northward along the Aberdeenshire coast from his Royal Observer Corps post, Mr David Stott, a sixty-four-yearold grandfather, told ...

Published: Thursday 07 October 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1765 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Rainstorm Fails to Halt R.A.F. Display

... provided the life to an otherwise still picture the work of almost every branch of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, the R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, and the Royal Observer Corps. Preceding the display in a trailer, Aberdeen A.T.C. Pipe Band played merrily, their ...

Published: Monday 24 January 1949
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Giving Up R.O.C. Appointment

... Aberdeen Anti-Aircraft Company. Royal Engineers, in 1925, and resigned in 1937 on being commissioned in the Auxiliary Air Force and appointed to command No. 612 County Aberdeen Sauadron. The new Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps has been A.O.C. No.• Group ...

Published: Monday 10 December 1945
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Observer Corps' New Chief

... Observer Corps' New Chief Group Captain G. H. Ambler has been appointed Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps in succession to Air Commodore A. D. Warrington-Morris (retired). Group Captain Ambler will hold the acting rank of Air Commodore. ...

Published: Tuesday 09 June 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

I—C.D. STAND DOWN TO-DAY

... Civil Defence and the Royal Observer Corps, who are now relieved of all obligations. FulK time Civil Defence workers begin their period of two months' notice in which to find other employment. Full-time workers in the Royal Observer ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

R.O.C. Needs 15,000 More Volunteers

... comes into being early in the new year. Fighter control units and the Royal Observer Corps work in close co-operation. No previous experience is necessary. Training is. given in the corps. The lowest age limit for volunteers is sixteen, the upper age being ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1948
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AIM FOR THE HEIGHTS

... HEIGHTS AS part of Aberdeen's Battle of Britain Week, members of the Royal Air Forces' Association, the 612, 2612 and 3612 R.A.F. Squadrons, the A.T.C., the Royal Observer Corps and a Royal Artillery detachment attended the mornini? ...

Published: Monday 19 September 1949
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Reservation Age in Observer Corps

... Reservation Age in Observer Corps The age of reservation for wholetime members of the Royal Observer Corps will be raised from thirty to thirty-five as from September 12. ...

Published: Friday 11 September 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 28 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Cinema Test for Observer 'Corps Badge

... Cinema Test for Observer 'Corps Badge ABOUT 150 members of the Royal Observer Corps in the north of Scotland will assemble at three centres Inverness, Thurso and Aberdeen —on Sunday for a free cinema show, but a show with a difference. ...

Published: Friday 22 April 1949
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Women Beat Men

... Women Beat Men In August, for the first time since recruiting for the Royal Observer Corps was reopened 1947, applications from women to join the corps outnumbered those from men —154 against 141. ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1949
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 33 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OBSERVER CORPS CHIEF FOR NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND

... OBSERVER CORPS CHIEF FOR NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND /OBSERVER COMMANDER SIR WINDHAM CARMICHAEL i wANSTRUTHER (right), who has just been appointed group commandant of the Royal Observer Corps in the North-east Scotland ...

Published: Tuesday 20 February 1945
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 41 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JET PLANES ON OBSERVER TEST

... JET PLANES ON OBSERVER TEST Seven squadrons of the latest jet fighters, with heavy bombers and Auxiliary Air Force Spitfires. will co-operate in the biTgest Royal Observer Corps exercise since the war. It will be staged over the Eastern half of England ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1948
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 46 | Page: 1 | Tags: none