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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

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 

SPORTS GOSSIP By Observer

... be having a new secretary soon, for Mr. Billy Wayto has been appointed to a commission as a supply officer in the Royal Army Service Corps. Ho will be taking up his duties quite soon. Fulham, however, may not have to search far for a successor ; possibly ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Richmond Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Our Secret Postbag

... an organised, military Air Force ? I say that, at the outbreak of the last war, nobody had an Air Force, and that our Royal Flying Corps was the first such body to be formed. A know-all friend, needless to say, disagrees, and says that the French were the ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 565 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

erl/Y

... Private Farrow ( ?); Sergeant K. W. Andrew (Royal Army Medical ('orps); Lance-Corporal P. B. Ayres (Royal Engineers. Searchlights); Driver C. P. Clark (Royal Army Service Corps); L Sergeant P. G. Condon (Royal Field Artillery); Signalman R. ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1940
Newspaper: West Ham and South Essex Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HAS ONLY ONE EYE -IN 30 WARS

... AFTER serving with the Royal Flying Corps in the last war, Mr. Harry Miles, of Mortimerroad, Hove, Sussex, aged forty-one, and a married man with two children, vowed he would be in it again this time. Harry is now with the Royal Engineers, somewhere in ...

Published: Monday 15 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 453 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

6 DAYS STAGE at 1.35, 5.15, 8.55. 6 DAYS JACK MAYER & I DOREEN I HARRY DAVIDSON ALAN KITSON Me Royal AND TfIE ..

... away. but my wife FA:nt me a letter saying ehe was absolutely starring. After joining a Pioneer Corps on Ist November, 199, I was transferred to the Royal West Regiment. During that time .1 made application in writing concerning the nllowance for my wife ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1940
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

vFrictyr January-19th ' ' ' Kensingt Chimes :&?£&AND3TUB: Changes They t Sv-ill CARILLON 10th YEARS SINCE ..

... of Occupation 'into system ultimately : 1920 permanent Army Corps so commended - leaders of the General Staff nothing All the soldiers most : experienced leading of troops then'deemed corps ' mdispensable adjunct to special truth relation to- enlarged ...

R.A.F. BOMBS 4 NAZI WARSHIPS

... place Christmas Day. that occasion, too, the planes escaped damage. So hits on the ships were observed The Soldier They Left Behind T® King's Royal Rifle Corps, which left London yesterday V an unknown destination, was one man. e was Rifleman Henry Hore ...

Published: Monday 22 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 255 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PARTITIONING THE ROYAL AIR FORCE

... the Royal Air Force Those Who Would Split the R.A.F. Between the Army and the Navy 1 he War in the Air, described by CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane) THE controversy on the subject of the Army and its air force, air service, flying corps, or ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1904 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

Week-End Radio SATURDAY

... Salon Orchestra. 12.0—Philharmonic Ensemble. 12.35 Way of an Angel, a comedy by James Ft. Gregson. I.o—News. I.lo—Band the Royal Corps of Signals I.4s—Sandy Macpherson. 2.o—Farm Horses in Wartime, by W. S. Mansfield. 2.ls—Red Cross Handicap Steeplechase ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 521 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... to face. This week our artist, Fred May, recommends for mention in The Sketch despatches a General Hospital of the ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. This very popular unit of the Medicos is commanded by the genial Colonel Budd, M.C., who is at the head of a unit ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2437 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review