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THE YOUNG MEN WHO WANT TO FLY

... because it means that they have no real contact with or knowledge of the Royal Air Force. But I am getting ahead too fast. The first squadron formed by the Air Defence Cadet Corps was at Watford, though Leicester ranks as Number One because a promise was ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1833 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

TANKS--TANKS--TANKS--TANKS... CRAWLING UP AND DOWN AGAIN: Horse, Foot, and Artillery in the Melting Pot of a ..

... GREY LINE: Tomorrow's prototype of the thin red line that has made British history. Heavy tanks of the 5th Battalion Royal Tank Corps, drawn up for inspection at Tidworth, the headquarters of the Mechanized Force which has now made its first public appearance ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1927
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 690 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

ON THE ITALIAN FRONT

... a glass cap and holds the primer primer glass screw-cap ONE OF THE NEW MINES IS PICKED UP by a corporal and sapper of the Royal Engineers. It was found in position beneath a hedge AN R.E. CORPORAL INDICATES TO OTHER SAPPERS THE VARIOUS POINTS to look ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1029 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTORING.--LAND, AIR AND WATER

... affection. For example, what could be finer than the singular courage of Captain Lanoe George Hawker, of the Royal Engineers and Royal Flying Corps, who,- un- i assisted, attacked three German aeroplanes in succession on July 25th, combining with conspicuous ...

SCENES WITH THE BRITISH FIRST ARMY IN TUNISIA

... HAILS FROM HEYWOOD, observes the German-occupied town of Mateur from a hilltop. This town lies in a valley amongst the rocky hills it has been the scene of some very heavy fighting during the Tunisian campaign MEN OF THE ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS working ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 504 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

Fashion Notes and Notions

... Monday last, the 8th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Roehampton, Major Archibald Campbell Holmes MacLean, the Royal Scots, and of the Royal Flying Corps, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. MacLean, 3, Grosvenor Crescent, Glasgow, was married to Miss Jane ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1752 | Page: 52 | Tags: Photographs 

THE RANK AND FILE WHO HAVE GIVEN US INDIA

... with a small per centage of Royal troops, won for us our Indian Empire. It emerged from the Mutiny in new form and semblance. No longer dressed in imitation of British regulars, it adopted the garb of the gallant irregular corps who had co-operated with ...

Published: Saturday 16 December 1911
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1505 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

A CHRONICLE OF SCIENCE

... Dr. Gill (as he then was) published, through the medium of the Royal Astronomical Society, a voluminous paper giving an account of a determination of the solar parallax from observations of Mars, made at Ascension Island. A popular record of the expedition ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1907
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1064 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WHEEL AND THE WING: Sounds, Horrid Sounds

... business profit only. THE ARMY AIR -DEPARTMENT: COLONEL CAPPER AND MAJOR SIR A. BANNERMAN, ROYAL ENGINEERS, THE COMMANDER OF THE NEWLY FORMED MILITARY AIR -CORPS AT ALDERSHOT. Colonel J. E. Capper, the soldier whose name has become famous by the excellent ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1127 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

IN TOWN AND OUT: A Sort of Disloyalty

... functions in full royal robes and crown? To take this sort of point ot view is really a form of disloyalty. It is to re gard their Majesties not as a pattern of life, week in, week out, to nobleman and commoner alike, but as mere royal officials whose interest ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1913
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 921 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs