... AN R.A.F. STATION SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND: BY MEL Somewhere in England must always be just a manner of speaking, for, as is common knowledge, our Air Fighters may at any moment be here, there, or anywhere. The Boche has also some definite knowledge as to this. They have recently been putting the stencils on a place called Stavanger, and there are many more to come. The fact that the enemy has ...

... A SPOT OF BOTHER WITH A 'PLANE- BY VINC-COMMANDER E. C. OAKLEY BEUTTLER What has happened is that the helmsman, or man at the wheel, as the land-lubber might say, has swung his helm hard over and the good ship, handy as a lady's maid, has heeled over to port, causing the bit of a roll we see. It is unlucky that it should have happened just as they were hoisting a Swordfish in board, and the ...

... No. 7 FOULED ANCHORS BY WINC-COMMANDER E. C. OAKLEY-BEUTTLER There is nothing fantastic about this, as all sailors know What has happened may be explained like this. So often, when letting go your anchor on a bottom of which you are not quite certain, you may easily pick up a cable also. With two anchors out, wind and tide sometimes cause the ship to swing in a circle, and if the anchor-swivel ...

... FIGHTING UNITS No. 18 THE Nth BATTALION THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT By MEL This week our artist returns from his excursus to the skies and the men that look after them and brings us back to the sort of fighting man who has been going on ever since the first caveman dotted his neighbour one on the nose the P.B.I. Not that I. is necessarily so P.B. nowadays when they have buses like the one in the ...

... A HOLDING BATTALION ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS Every picture is supposed to tell its own story, and it is felt that this one does to them as knows The artist's sitters will most certainly appreciate all the noms de guerre which are bestowed, and no doubt will be very ready to admit that the portraiture is of the highest order. The mess would appear to be a cheery spot in which any officer might ...

... OFFICERS OF THE DEPOT BATTALION, ROYAL SIGNALS The artist himself being a serving officer in the Royal Corps of Signals, his sitters were naturally easier to come by than many of his others, who at times have been scattered very far afield. Colonel C. P. Prescot, the old C.O., was in Palestine before this war happened, and the new C.O., Lieut.-Colonel W. E. Rayner, who got a brevet in 1936, ...

... SERVICE UNITS No. 25 THE Nth BATTALION THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT- -By MEL Although a good many of the gallant officers included in our artist's very attractive gallery are depicted smoking the calumet of peace, this is only camouflage, for this battalion, like all the others of the Wiltshires, is hard at work preparing for bloody-fronted war, and from a sure hand we have it that it is fighting ...

... H.Q. A.A.S.F. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE The vigilance of our air scrappers is admirably displayed in this attractive gallery. Attention is directed to the officer in the right-hand top corner. The R.A.F. has established a reputation for not letting anything past There is the proof. The enemy needs no proof. He is not now overfond of taking it on unless he is wrapped up in cotton-wool by his fighters ...

... GALA AT MAXIM'S The gay Paris of the 'nineties, when Maxim's was Mecca and the can-can all the rage, is re-created in the new cabaret at Grosvenor House. Those on leave from France will probably find less of the Paris they have been brought up to imagine in the blued-out, half-shut-down city of to-day than in the bar of Maxim's as presented at Grosvenor House, with Paddy Browne as the Belle, ...

... . Mr. W. Heath Robinson's revelations of Naval devices calculated to irritate the gentle Nazis until their peace-loving dispositions become quite fierce include the inventions on this page These netc notions for arming our merchantmen with depth-charges and other anti-submarine equipment are not more fantastic than some of the ideas ichich the German Press has seriously attributed to the First ...

... PINOCCHIO, puppet-boy hero of WALT DISNEY'S second full-length film due at the New Gallery Regent Street, on March 18, is the netc boy in the Disney school. Here he is depicted as getting the once-over from his seniors, the other Disney creations. They lean out of their frames to inspect the boy, who, it *s rumoured, may steal their thunder as film celebrities and put them in the shade. The ...

... SERVICE UNITS No. 31 AN R.A.F. SIGNALS GROUP: By MEL Even though information likely to be of use to the enemy has to be kept so close a secret, it is fairly safe to assure the lay public that signalling in the R.A.F. is rarely done by the flag-wagging method, and even whistling and shouting out such expressions as Oi and Hi can be ruled out. Even with these manifest handicaps the message ...