... A General Trades Training Battalion, Royal Corps of Signals by Mel Top Captain G. Gee, Captain C. A. Lamb, Captain J. C. Treasure, Major F. G. Wilson Centre Captain E. L. Smith-Masters, Lieut.-Colonel P. B. Foot (Commanding Officer), Major D. C. M. Johnson (Second in Command), Major Beagles Lander Bottom Captain W. M. Lindley, M.C., Captain E. V. Marsh (Adjutant), Captain A. R. Manley (Q.-M.), ...

... Old Bill Goes East By Bruce Bairnsfather Hey! You under that rooster! Like a lift? We're goin' your way By Bruce Bairnsfather ...

... . Luftwaffe or no Luftwaffe, the C.O. must have his breakfast, so under elaborate cover the regimental cooks get to work and, course by course, the meal, invisible from the air, is drawn over to its appointed end, starting with an egg PRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...

... Mggg-- At Long Last Uniforms are Issued to the Royal Observer Corns By Wing Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler Wing Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler The Royal Observer Corps, the eyes and cars of Fighter Command, has been in existence since 1918, when it was started by Maior- Leneral Ashmore, R.A., with a few posts around London. In 1929 the organisation was handed over to the Air Ministry Air Com ...

... : Lord Milford trains with Jack Jarvis at Newmarket Eph Smith is the stable jockey. Although his colours are not familiar on the Turf in England, Lord Dillon is a keen racegoer and a good judge of bloodstock. George 'Blackwell, Jr is now serving in the R.A. he is the son of the veteran Newmarket trainer, George Blackwell. P. Maker, now in the R.A.F., won the May Plate at Nottingham on the ...

... AND THEN THE SOLDIER. NO. 5. Our hardened, nimble and alert Army knows how to be gay as well as grim. These drawings by Sherriffs record some of the brighter angles of modern military life somewhere in England to-day. CARICATURES BY SHERRIFFS. ...

... THE ROOF- RAISING DEFENCE TO DEFEAT DIVE-BOMBERS. W. Heath Robinson's latest device to defeat the dive-bombers is a roof-raising story By means of an ingenious system of cogs balloons and other lifting machinery, he believes that it will be possible completely to upset the dive-bomber pilots' calculations as to their height from the ground. DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...

... CHOCLIKS DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH! THIS AIN'T BENGHAZI! DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... With the Fleet Air Arm No. 23 All Our Machines Returned Safely By Wing Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler pic onal epilogue to that familiar phrase which comes over the e ess with a welcome sound to round off an Air Ministry com- anrinH'UC* honour to pilots and navigators for their skill beh' 'i°U ^ut don't let us forget the litters the men 11 t le engines who hand over the machines to the pilot ...

... . DRAWN* BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... IN THE CAVALRY NOW. NO. 1. Artist Sherriffs is in the Army noiv, and in his spare time has been jotting down impressions of fellow-soldiers in the Boyal Armoured Corps, which takes the place of cavalry in modern warfare. CARICATURES BY SHERRIFFS. ...

... Printed in England by The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd., Milford Lane, London, W.C.2, and Published Weekly by Illustrated Newspapers, Ltd., Commonwealth House, i, New Oxford Street. Lonaon, w.l..i. Saturday, ljecember o, 1941. lintereci as secona-uiass Matter at tne rsew yotk (in.y.) rost umce, 1903. ...