... Monocles and After By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler Chief Petty-Officer Electrical Artificer Philip Morter has made Naval History. As an instrument-maker in civil life he had worn an eyeglass for four years, and did not mean to give it up when he volunteered for the Navy. A rating with a monocle was a phenomenon without precedent, and as King's Regulations contained no ban, something ...

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... By Bruce Bairnsfather Yer know, I dreamt last night that Hitler's double had been doin' every thin' up to now, and when Hitler, 'imself got back 'e was furious about it! By Bruce Bairnsfather (Continent on dream censored.) ...

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... With the Fleet Air Arm No. 16 Consternation on the Quarterdeck By Wing Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler This terrible scene represents the enactment of a grave naval offence. A midshipman and a Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (A), both of the Auxiliary Fleet Air Arm, stroll blissfully along the starboard side of the quarterdeck on the ship to which they are attached, llorritied onlookers to this ...

... September Sales by The Tout Hyperion stock was in strong demand at the recent September Sales at Newmarket. For his Silver Birch filly by Hyperion, Mr. Ernest Bellaney, who is a director of the National Stud, got 7100 guineas, the purchaser l>cing Frank Butters on behalf of the Aga-Ali Khan partnership. Major L. B. Holliday, who trains with Bob Colling at Newmarket, gave 6100 guineas for the ...

... SERVICE UNITS -No. 26 OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS -BY MEL It is the Long Stocking that wins most wars, and this one is not going to prove any exception. The officers concerned in this little gallery are a small section of those whose job it is to see that the warrior gets the appointed reward for his services, and although they get no chance of capturing that bubble reputation which ...

... All the King's Horses Most of the horses portrayed on this page have carried the King's colours. Big Game won the 2000 Guineas, and Sun Chariot the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and St. Leger in 1942, while both were leased to His Majesty by the National Stud. They are now at Aisabie Stud, Newmarket, where Sun Chariot's first foal was born this year. Fair Glint wdl carry the Royal colours in this year's ...

... AN ARMY TRAINING REGIMENT, ROYAL ARMOURED -CORPS Speaking likenesses of the C.O. and his officers at one of the many centres where our modern knights in armour hold are instructed in the particular form of warfare which in these modern times is all the rage. The wheel always comes full circle, and in this case it has done so with a vengeance. Lieut. -Colonel N. M. Dillon's mother regiment was ...

... Racing Reunion on the July Course by 44 The Tout Mr. A. E. Allnalt, who created a sensation in the racing world by buying the whole of the late Lord Glanely's racing stud, is one of Joe Lawson's principal owners at Manton. He has entered XJjiji and Shahpoor in the last Classic the St. Leger, to he run on September 12th. When R.A.F. duties permit, Tommy Loivry turns up to ride winners on the ...

... Putting the 44 IT into the I.T.W. By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler Life m many a small town is brightened by the stirring spectacle of R.A.F. recruits of the Initial Training Wings, with white flashes in their caps, marching along at lightning speed (140 paces to the minute-- the Army docs 120) through the streets to their requisitioned houses and hotels. They are all volunteers for air ...

... J Part of Italy long and low and whitc- lrough an outer gate, and now wearing services in the field is rarely publicised. and orderlies are accustomed to acclaim from the general public, ever stinting in their praise of the 1 S'ngly from the often overworked 'lie! f^Ve sucre(' a more than usually fth' victims have mostly been ls experience, it has been stated that e within the ranks of the R ...