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... disqualified from driving for two years. ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS Bi(f exercise with R.A.F. Some 3,000 members of the Royal Observer Corps, both men and women, will take part in an exercise to-morrow over the ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1949
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 606 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CIVIL DEFENCE WAR GRATUITY

... fire brigades. The gratuity would also be paid to ‘other ranks of the Royal Observer Corps and the auxiliary coastguard. Special considerations applied to officers of the Royal Observer Corns, and this question must examined separately. I ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NOW IK DIVORCE SUIT

... living in Dublin at the time. Her husband, a stuAmt evangelist, went to England to a church there. In 1941 he joined the Royal Observer Corps. She returned to Dublin for the birth of her third child. Her husband had visited her five days after the birth. She ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1947
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CUFTONVIDDE BOWLING CLUB BEGIN PLAY FOK SEASON.—MR. J. RITCHIE (third from right), PRESIDENT, ABOUT TO UNFURL ..

... public expression of appreciation of their splendid record.” The Air Ministry has announced that the stand-down of the Royal Observer Corps .will begin simultaneously with the disbandment arrangements for the Civil Defence general services. ...

Published: Monday 30 April 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BAGGING OF NAZI BOMBERS. DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS. One of the raiders shot down on Sunday night was a ..

... water. Gunners on the coast fired at an enemy bomber caught by searchlights, and saw one of their shells hit the tail. Royal Observer Corps men say they saw the same plane going out towards the sea losing height rapidly and on fire. Another bomber crashed ...

Published: Tuesday 06 May 1941
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 291 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ELIGIBLE CATEGORIES

... business premises: Civil Nursing Service. Nurses in Government, local authority, and recognised voluntary hospitals: Royal Observer Corps and Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. All members of the Forces who have served in the United Kingdom during ...

Published: Friday 18 May 1945
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

‘ROOF OVER BRITAIN’ OFFICIAL STORY OF AIR DEFENCES WOMEN'S PART IN WORK The story of the A.A. defences of Britain

... links—the Royal Observer Corps, who spot and identify the hostile aircraft from nearly 1.500 posts; the Royal Corps of Signals, whose job it is to maintain the vital communications between guns, search, lights and gun operation rooms: the ...

Published: Monday 15 March 1943
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WAR GRATUITIES

... determined. The credits will not be subject to income tax. Details are also issued to how the scheme will apply to the Royal Observer Corps and the Auxiliary Coastguard Service. ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOUSING BILL

... at a consistently high level. Another valuable service rendered to the R.A.F. by the Royal Observer Corps is that of reporting crashes sea. Time and again, Observers watch at a coastal post have reported seeing an aircraft down into the water. But what ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1944
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1999 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHANGE OF COMMAND

... branches of the Royal Air Force. The ten students visiting Germany are from the Air Forces of Belgium. Burma, China. Denmark. France. Grece. India, Iraq, and the Netherlands. CLOTHING FOR THE R.O.C. Spare-time observers of the Royal Observer ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1949
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FULL-SCALE MOCK WAR Biggest air exercise since the war and secret methods of aerial warfare will be I tried out

... defences will include all first-line squadrons of Fighter Command. R.A.F, radar reporting stations, the Royal Observer Corps, operational flights of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, anti-aircraft units and civil defence forces. From their bases “Southland’s” ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1948
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Conservative Conference

... the rank, of regimental sergeant-major. He is now too old for enlistment in the Army, but he is doing duty in th»: Royal Observer Corps. The delegates had been looking forward hearing an address by Mr, Churchill, who had promised to attend the conference ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 345 | Page: 4 | Tags: none