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DESTROYER DIFFICULTIES

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

MEL WITH THE FORCES

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 100 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

MEL WITH THE FIGHTING FORCES

... 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, ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 96 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Comic strips  Graphic