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SPOTTERS' FINE SERVICE

... quarterly inter-club colnpetitions on aircraft recognition had shown that the clubs' standard was higher than that pf the Royal Observer Corps. would 1 ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1943
Newspaper: Hampstead News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Mullis—Harwood

... hill. t- Among those present at the ceremony were some of the bridegroom's colleagues from No. 19 Group (Bromley) Royal Observer Corps. The bride served in W.A.A.P. Adminktration until she joined the Auxiliary when there was an urgent appeal for volunteers ...

Published: Tuesday 11 March 1947
Newspaper: Lewisham Borough News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR. BEVIN AND THE TRAINING OF GIRLS

... industries are paramount at the present time there is still one uniformed Corps which requires recruits and requires them urgently, namely, the Royal Observer Corps. This Corps is doing war work of great importance and provides an ...

Published: Friday 15 October 1943
Newspaper: East London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 296 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

1,600 stand today

... Frank Sinatra, Sinatra, The Voice, is now the father of twelve Italian war orphans, Found—and guided homeby the Royal Observer Corps when he lost his bearings piloting a Thunderbolt over Britain, U.S. Bth A.F. Chief, General Griswold. He admitted it ...

Published: Monday 25 June 1945
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

V 2's BY

... to unravel its secrets. They are being aided by the RAF. by engineers and chemists, by University professors. by the Royal Observer Corps, the Civil Defence and civilians. Search parties have tramped miles through woods, over fields, hunting V 2 wreckage ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1944
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 221 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Blitz heroines get stripes

... are: Ambulance, Decontamination, First Aid, Messenger, Report and Control, Rescue, Warden, Nurse and C.D. Reserve; Royal Observer Corps, Port of London Authority River Emergency Service, A bronze oak leaf will be the emblem for mentions in dispatches ...

Published: Wednesday 04 August 1943
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 202 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ASK MORE

... ASK MORE LESLEY STORM WOMEN WATCH FOR THE RAIDER Women are now in the Royal Observer Corps. Many of the recruits are wives or daughters of men already in the Corps. Our picture shows Mrs. E. R. Balhatchet, who is on a post in East Anglia. AN all-round ...

Published: Tuesday 10 March 1942
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 247 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SIR RICHARD FAIREY GIVES A PARTY: A swordfish from fhe Bosphorus was served to 750 guests at Londonderry House

... Marshal Sir William Coryton and Admiral Lord Fraser, C.-in-C. Portsmouth Air.-Cdre. the Earl of Bandon, Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps, with Air-Cdre. J. Constable Roberts Mr. Whitney Straight, who is managing director of B.O.A.C., with Mr. Richard Fairey ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 259 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

How Nazi got away in plane ACOURT of Inquiry has condemned the patrol system of a northern aerodrome, from which

... to the Station Commander, a general warning was issued to all R.A.F. stations, and the aircraft was tracked by the Royal Observer Corps. It landed through lack of fuel, and the Germans were , apprehended. The Air Under-Secretary told Mr, Radford (Rusholme ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1942
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 231 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Victory Copper Clubs

... contributes a copper. At the end of the month the proceeds are forwarded to the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. The fund, incidentally, also looks alter the Royal Observer Corps. During the first month Victory Copper Club No. I raised El 2s. 3d.: the second ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1942
Newspaper: Bromley & West Kent Mercury
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 5 | Tags: none