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... French civilian employe of a certain electric supply any W as electrocuted in a transloiTner. Dvr. E. R. Elles. the Royal iy Service Corps, rushed into the ansformer to assist the civilian. He received a severe shock, and became He recovered after artifl- ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 506 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PROPOSED NEW DAM OPPOSED

... Young People's Fellowship—proceed* of carol singing Mr. E. R. Roberts) Cardiff Corporation Electricity Charities’ Fund Observer Corps. (Cardiff) Group Centre Principal. Staff, and Students the Training College of Domestic Arts for South Wales and Mon- ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1142 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Officer Attacked

... addition to those mounted in the nose and tail. Men operating the flying boats are members of the first contingent of the Royal Australian Air Force now in England. They will take an important part in the watch from the air of the approaches to Britain ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 725 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BELFAST TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1940

... grave of the first Royal Flying Corps officer to be killed on duty. Similarly mechanical transport was once a branch of the Royal Engineers until its use by the Army became so general that it was taken over by the Royal Army Service Corps. ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1231 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THAW SETS IN ON WESTERN FRONT 1 A Quiet Day on the Whole JUNIOR AIR MINISTER ? Captain Balfour in France VISIT ..

... Reynonds and Cammell , both Royal Engineer officers . Camouflage is another of the Royal Engineers units and this art of concealing concealment becomes increasingly important in a war of fixed position anrTintensive air observation . Attached to the B . ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1537 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NORTH COUNTRY NOTES

... left the University and enlisted in the Durhams. Within two months he was commissioned. In 1916 he was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps; in 1919 brilliant leadership won him the D.F.C., and the same year he was granted a permanent commission a Flight ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 788 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Page 6 GRIMSBY tVENING TELEGRAPH JAN 3 REDS MAY HAVE TO ABANDON BIG ATTACK FINNS ARE CONFIDENT OF BIG NEW

... Mining Con Goldfields Mine Beers Gold 163 Rliod Anglo Amer 8el Corp 11 llio Tinto 17 159 Nigel Venterspost 126 Prop 814 Holding Invest W Wltwatcrsrand 1 View & 1914 OILS Anglo-Iranian Royal Dutch Shell Mexican Plants 341 AngtoDutch United Serdang THREE ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 4622 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AIR EDDIES

... fighters they possess to try and cope with them. No doubt about it, the old spirit of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service still lives in the men of the Royal Air Force to-day MR. JAMES FAIRBAIRN The Australian Minister for Air, who recently ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 955 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

PERFECT ARYAN

... nature any ernee.—Keiiter. BRITISH PROCLAMATION: ITALIANS IMPRESSED. Home. Tuesday. The Royal Piwlamahonmakin^ Britons liable , political forces has their observers to cast . compulsory scepticism is military service. - Britain's deterl,„Sion«%«P|fe for ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 563 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MAGNIFICENT EFFORT SAYS FRANCE

... liberty of Europe and the safety of civilisation.” ROME, Tuesday.—The Royal Proclamation making 2.000,000 Britons liable for service in the armed forces has forced Italian political observers to cast off some of their scepticism regarding Britain’s compulsory ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

in Villages ON HOW THEY MAY BE ENTERTAINED

... Captain J. A. Sinclair, relating how an Observer Corps works to-day shows the wonderful development in home defence compared with the primitive conditions of the last war. In 1916 as C.S.M. I conducted an Observer Company 0 Hull and took over a cinema as ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1256 | Page: 4 | Tags: none