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il .e thiam—ai I IN). Pay rise for police and civil defence

... years' service. A proportionate Increase has been made in the pay of women auxiliaries over 20. Whole-time observers of the Royal Observer Corps are to receive an increase in basic hay of 2s. a week (men) or Is. 6d. a week (women) ; and also increases ...

Published: Monday 21 August 1944
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Valuable Training

... use to the Royal Observer Corps, of which I am a member. I think we need more —just as we can always do with more fuU-Idsed ones. We should have models of all planes, but we only have copies of some, and it isn't the same thing. — Observer, Alloa, N ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1941
Newspaper: John Bull
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 144 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

The number is engaged ABOXING DAY bride at St. Clement's Church, York, was wooed and won over the telephone. She

... The number is engaged ABOXING DAY bride at St. Clement's Church, York, was wooed and won over the telephone. She was Royal Observer Corps centreplotter Anne Cooper, and the man who yesterday became her husband was ROC outpost plotter Frederick (Tony) Waites ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1944
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 176 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MARRIED HIS NURSE

... MARRIED HIS NURSE W Force four-engine bomber HEN a Royal Canadian Air Best man was Officer Observer Bracey, of the Royal Observer Corps, who was hurt crashed on a housing estate at when a bomb xploded in the York three months ago, only plane ...

Published: Sunday 03 June 1945
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 145 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Doing Something

... collated in an Operations Room where this girl is sitting. It probably comes from Fighter Command. A.-A. Command, the Royal Observer Corps, and other sources. How all this is boiled down Into concise information in a matter of seconds is, to me, a marvel ...

Published: Sunday 23 July 1944
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 179 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR. MORRISON

... inexplicable. He, of all people, with brazen effrontery appeals for 28,500 volunteers—part time—for the Royal Observer Corps (whieh I think he Called his Corps), including those with wartime experience. And this is he who, in 1914-18, was a declared C. ...

Published: Friday 13 December 1946
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

18-355. UP FOR FIRE-WATCH

... workers and works Are-guards must register. The only exceptions are members of -the Armed Forces and Home Guard; the Royal Observer Corps, police (including specials and war reserve constables), the blind and insane, doctors, and masters or crew of sea-going ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1941
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EXEMPT FROM CITY FIREWATCH

... Home Security. The following need not register: Members of the Armed Forces, policemen, doctors and members of the Royal Observer Corps. Grants for exemption will be membership of the Home Guard, unfitness, exceptional hardship. and the performance ...

Published: Monday 28 April 1941
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 207 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

hN V Y OF TOWNSFOLK

... donned oilskins and thighboots which might have been expected to keep out the wet for an indefinite period. passed a Royal Observer Corps' post a tall man in a beret popped his head out and made remark concerning ’the weather, which heartily ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1942
Newspaper: Marylebone Mercury
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 181 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CHAMBER OF COMMFACE

... wives and a friend. Over 250 applications to join the Royal Observer Corps were received during the month ended April 15. Of these 67 were from women. All areas still need more volunteers to bring the Corps up to its target strength of 28,000. The lower age ...

engineers and quantity and land surveyors ; Scientific assistants employed in the Air Ministry Meteorological ..

... assistants , Opticians, pathological laboratory assistants, pharmacists. physiotherapists and radiographers: Members of the Royal Observer Corps. It is pointed out that the exemp. lions from the emergency reser., do not apsvly to those wishing to join the Territorial ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1948
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 187 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Mr. Reg Bishop

... Wound Stripes for R.O.C. rfIHE Air Ministry announces that the King has been pleased to approve that members of the Royal Observer Corps should be eligible for wound stripes and chevrons for war service. The chevrons and wound stripes will be of thc same ...

Published: Friday 03 March 1944
Newspaper: Bayswater Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 3 | Tags: none