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Misasheen

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Published: Wednesday 25 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 105 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

PRETTY WORK WITH MOLOTOV COCKTAILS, GRENADES AND GUNS THE HOME GUARD TAKES AN ... MODERN WARFARE COURSE

... PRETTY WORK WITH MOLOTOV JCKTAILS, GRENADES AND GUNS THE HOME GUARD TAKES AN 6IVE MODERN WARFARE COURSE. Members of the Home Guard icatching an expert at work with Molotov 44 cocktails. f Left Members of the class of Home Guards watching mortars being fired. Throwing sticks of dynamite in the most scientific manner. Home Guards of various ages filing past a box of ammunition and inspecting ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 328 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

... GIRLS-IN-BLUE

... sIG GIRLS-IN-BLUE. Tea and cigarettes in one of the little houses in WAAF-toivn. Right Tidying up the garden one of the evening occupations of the WAAFs. Flowers and a portable wireless make the tea-table at a WAAF-town house look very gay. Ten little WAAFs walking down the main street of the all-women town where they live. fan Left Practising at i| the dart-board in their mess with a view to ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PREMIER WATCHES THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

... . MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL last week visited the front line of Great Britain, and toured Dover and Ramsgate, eoast towns which have been bear ing, with admirable courage and calmness, the brunt of the first attacks. Wearing a tin helmet, he watched an air battle at Dover and saw seven enemy 'planes shot down in less than an hour. He inspected the shelters in the towns, saw the effect of raids ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LOVE, MURDER AND RADIO: THE BODY WAS WELL NOURISHED

... William Blake (BARRY K. BARNES r.) demonstrates the cleaner to the unwilling Reginald (ANTHONY SHAW) and his fiancee Ann (DIANA CHURCHILL). W illiam (BARRY K. BARNES) brings Ann (DIANA CHURCHILL) her wrap when he has surprised her trying on trousseau cami-knickers. Reginald finds Ann and William hunting for murder clues a search which has put them in a compromising position and rouses the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 217 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOSS BROS & CO. LTD

... MOSS BROS CO. LTD. MOSS BROS CO. LTD. UNIFORMS/ for IMMEDIATE WEAR J Things move very fast in these times but Moss Bros, are well equipped to keep up with them. From their vast range of ready-to-wear uniforms and equipment, any officer in the Navy, Army, or R.A.F. can be correctly out fitted from top to toe, before you could say There goes the Italian Navy a matter of minutes in fact. Uniforms ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 146 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

V.C.s' HANDSHAKE

... mmmm mmm f s vf . LIEUT.-COMMANDER RICHARD B. STANNARD, R.N.R., who icon his V.C. at Namsos is here shaking hands with SECOND-LIEUT. RICHARD ANNAND, Durham Light Infantry u/io was aicarded the V.C. for conspicuous gallantry on May 15-16 lr/ien f/e platoon he commanded was holding a damaged bridge across the Dyle, near Brussels. They are congratulating each other after the King had decorated ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 103 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A WEDDING SEPTET: BRIDES AND GROOMS

... . FLYING OFFICER R. MAXWELL MILNE, son of Captain R. M. Milne married MISS JOSEPHINE R. JAMES, daughter of the late Mr. Harold James, at St. Peter's, Belsize Park. The announce ment that he had been awarded the D.F.C. for leading his section with skill and courage and personally destroying seven enemy machines was made on the day before the wedding. The HON. MRS. MARY ASHLEY, younger daughter ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 280 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A VERY NAZI LIE!

... A VERY NAZI LIE I w l Jfc Here's a new line in nasty Nazi lies! We are used to the Goebbels variety, although familiarity doesn't make us any more partial to them but here is a golf one. Players on a course sometehere near London had a surprise when they t cent out for a round on the morning after an air raid, for they found a new and very disagreeably placed bunker in the middle of the first ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WIFE MEETS WIFE--WITH CARY GRANT AS THE HUSBAND

... WIFE MEETS WIFE-- WITH CARY GRANT AS THE HUSBAND. Off for an unconsciously bigamous honeymoon Bianca (GAIL PATRICK) and Nick (CARY GRANT) say good-bye to Nick's children Chinch (MARY LOU HARRINGTON) and Tim (SCOTTY BECKETT). Ellen's wardrobe is seven years old. She resurrects a dress and her dog retrieves the extra length of skirt tchich she has cut off to smarten it up Ellen (IRENE DUNNE) ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DOUBLE-PURPOSE CLOTHES

... DOUBLE PURPOSE CLOTHES BE a turncoat this autumn with a reversible model from the very practical collection at Fenwick's, 62-63, New Bond Street. The one above, for 6i guineas, is in corduroy and mohair, good- looking and extremely hard-wearing. The coat has inset sleeves, not raglan, and is completely reversible you can have it in dark brown with a light nut-brown, with nigger or with off ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 318 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 454 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs