The Winged Bomb

... jumped from Oxford into the first World War as a motor-cycle despatch- rider, transferred to the infant Flying jtj Corps, went up as an observer with a Winchester repeater ('planes were ||i| not weaponed then) and nearly downed Immelmann with a shot, Hi later ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3670 | Page: 67 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HONOURS RECIPIENTS Some Biographical lit * Uio ^ BARONS PRIVY COUNCILLORS BARONETS A 7 CHTS BACHFXOR ORDFK ..

... considerable hospital experience as House Physician in the Royal Infirmary , Edinburgh , Resident Physician in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children , and Resident Surgeon in the Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital . He succeeded his ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 21156 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NIGHT OF THE GARTER

... B . Elate Royal Engineers .. Major-General ( acting Licutenant-General ) Thomas Ralph Eastwood , D . S . O ., M . C ., late The King ' s Royal Rifle Corps . Major-General John Walter Lennox Scott , D . S . O ., late Royal Army Medical Corps ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1382 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

AFTER EFFECTS

... leave: Thomas Smith (32) of 800 Rooley Moor Road (Royal Engineers); Matthew Robinson (22) of 19 Church Street (Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps), and Ernest Raymond Dale (37) of 84 Norton Road (Royal Engineers), LIGHTS SHOWING Fines of 40s. each were ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 293 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Army Commissions : Merit Counts, Not The Old School Tie

... securing as many promising young scientists and mathematicians as possible for such highly technical corps as the Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, and Royal Artillery. In future an examination, known as the Special Army Examination. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 581 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ROBERT KIN G'S STORY OP OLD NORTH SHIELDS THEATRES

... 1864, from Messrs Tyzack and Young's Docks at North Shields and the bells of Christ Church rang a merry peal. The day was observed as a half holiday and in the evening there was a large attendance at the Albion Assembly Room to witness Miss Emma Stanley's ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1402 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A “NIGHT FLAP”

... was subdued excitement. At the field telephone duty pilot was busy. Messages were passed to the parent fighter station, Observer Corps, and the police. For miles arcund the countryside was on the watch for the missing fighter. Pupils and instructors sat ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1741 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SCOTS IN HONOURS LIST

... to the Glasgow Insurance Committee. Colonel Angus Robertson, Controller, Observer Corps. Miss Isabel M'Gregor Young, Honorary Organising Secretary, Kirkcaldy Girls' Club. ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER Comma d Cunningham is appointed a Appointed members of Fourth ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 820 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MANY WAR WORKERS IN NEW YEAR'S HONOURS

... the offices of convener of the Air Raid Precautions Committee and joint controller. Col. Angus Robertson, controller, Observer Corps Centre, who gets the M.8.E., is the son the late Sir William Robertson, Dunfermline. In 1911 joined the firm of Hay & ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1281 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CHIT CHAT

... . ForlescueXT Dick Whittingtor ? , after $ performance at the Royal \ . Bedford . * • . ] Mrs . R . has booked ] attractions for the \ Grand , and also for her other \ , the Royal County , J Bedforjd . At Luton . revues will \ be the staple fare ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1941
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1865 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STOCKPORT EXPRESS THURSDAY JANUARY 2 1941 I SIX AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL 1889) THURSDAY JAN 2 1941 THIS WEEK’S ..

... times services Hanover Congregational Church will 10-45 am and 3-30 pm At both services the sacrament oi Lord’s Supper will observed and a collection taken on behalf of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund of the London Missionary Society At the recent examination ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1941
Newspaper: Stockport County Express
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4723 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Lighter Side

... he was a double medallist at the Royal Academy, and he was still painting energetically after he was 80. It was in 1909 that he painted the last portrait of King Edward VII. It was his last picture to be hung in the Royal Academy, and afterwards it was ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1941
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 758 | Page: 4 | Tags: none