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TOM BONE

... 6d.), a tour of the scenes in Shakespeare's plays by Russell Thorndike. Forewarned is Forearmed, a history of the Royal Observer Corps by T. E. Winslow (Hodge, 12s. 6d.). Story of a Lake, a reprint of the famous novel by Negley Farson (Gollancz, 12s ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1340 | Page: 68 | Tags: Review 

Our Bookshelf: THE ROYAL NAVY

... (Our |3 ao h b It c If THE ROYAL NAVY THE seventh and last volume of Sir W. Laird Clowes's great, history of the Navy completes the work of ten years, and at last gives this country an up-to-date and modern account of the achieve ments of its fleet. ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1903
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3896 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY: Books to order this Week; On Royal Errands

... Dm Giant Circumstance. By John Oxenham. (Hodder 6j.) |0)K Loaves and Fishes. By Bernard Capes. (Methuen 6s.) rags '-mA On Royal Errands Some very interesting sidelights are thrown on the life of a King's Foreign Service Messenger by Captain Philip Wynter ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1490 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: MADE IN BRITAIN: THE PERFECT WAR-MACHINE; The War Man

... strike an unexpected blow, and with which he can quickly guard his body against sudden attacks. The Engineers and Army Service Corps are his feet, both necessary for keeping him moving forward. The great mass of Infantry is his body, in which lies all his ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 978 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... Concrete. By Pietro di Donato. Gollancz ys. Gd.) Our artist made these sketches of officers of the ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS somewhere in England. In 1825 a Royal Warrant was issued to the Store Branch of the War Office. During the Crimean War a fresh organisation ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2256 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... yd.) This week our artist visited an R.A.F. OBSERVER CORPS unit which was started early in 1938 and, at the outbreak of hostilities, immediately taken over by the Air Ministry. The motto of the Observer Corps is Forewarned is forearmed and everyone will ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2125 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... the officers of the ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS, whom he visited at their H.Q. The first attempt to organise Army Transport came with the formation of the Corps of Royal Waggoners in 1794. During the Crimean War the Land Transport Corps was ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2539 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... artist has visited a unit of the ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS, stationed somewhere in England. The R.A.S.C. was first known as the Royal Waggon Train. It stands for Service as the name implies, and has always maintained the Corps' motto: Nil Sine Lahore Nothing ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2364 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... stomach, but its pocket helps it, too, and this is where the ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS steps in as being a most valuable branch of the Service, for you can't do much without a Pay Day The Army Pay Corps, some of tvhose officers were caricatured by our artist at ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2222 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... of Revolt in the Desert revolted also from the flesh. Referring to some of his less abstemious com rades in the Tank Corps he observed I get in denial the gratifica tion they get in indulgence. I react against their example with an abstinence more rigorous ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1991 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

BACK-STAGE WITH EISENHOWER: Captain Harry Butcher's Diary Records the Tact and Genius for Leadership of the ..

... In his current efforts to improve British and American relationships, I see in Ike something akin to a fireman atop an observation tower watching a forest for smoke or flame. He has put out some fires by logical argument that to win the war the Allies ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1395 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review