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The DAYLIGHT ATTACKS on the GERMAN BATTLESHIPS

... BREST-- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18-- HALIFAX AIRCRAFT OF BOMBER COMMAND, R.A.F., FLYING OVER THE PORT WHERE THE POCKET-BATTLESHIPS SCHARNHORST AND GNEISENAU AND THE CRUISER PRINZ EUGEN ARE SHELTERING. The attack on these vessels had already begun when this official picture was taken by another British bomber flying above the Halifaxes r\n Thursday, December 18, heavy aircraft of the R.A.F. Bomber ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

GILLETTE

... 6I1LETTE and even longer still if you will bear in mind that the edge of many a blade is damaged by n careless unwrapping before it R 1 9 fl fl 's ever usecl I So carefully is U 1 d U B U your Glllette 1313(16 Packed that IV W W w IV jts perfectly honed cutting edges do not even touch the inner wrapper, as you may see by holding it up to the light. If you will take the same care you will get ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

Behind barbed wire

... ffekind barb More than 60,000 British Prisoners of War will spend this winter in Captivity. For most, it will be their second year in enemy hands. Please imagine what your own feelings would be in like circum stances and send a donation TO-DAY. f will send a parcel III _ and cigarettes to a prisoner. O XT will send regular V 3 parcels and cigar- ettes for a year. will send regular i T J ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 166 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

Miles AIRCRAFT

... AfotfiS AIRCRAFT Wi/5 Stages in the development of a reputation A FTER the success of the Hawk in 1933 had justified the designers' belief in the low-wing monoplane, other aeroplanes quickly followed. They were the first British aeroplanes to standardise split flaps, which provided full control at very slow landing speeds. HAWK MAJOR Two-seater (bottom). The prototype of this famous plane, ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 292 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

SWAN INKS

... FOR WRITING SATISFACTION- Jk 0^ *v?Mn PENS MADE THROUGHOUT IN THE BRITISH ISLES ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 15 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

KERSHAW

... Give 1/euk Btmrcuiafts ?A/e?uf patfi 46 needed wt 7lationa£ Service Kershaw's Famous Prismatic Binoculars, British I all through-- the world's standard of quality-- I I will be again available at a later date I SO H O LIMITED COLHAM MILL RD., WEST DRAYTON, MIDDLESEX ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 44 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

NEWS FROM HOME

... Dear Mr. Gerald I am writing this letter by the light of a hurricane lamp in the coach house, which is now the guard room of the Home Guard. I expect your own guard room will be a tent, being out in a hot climate as you are. I have just relieved old Moleskin Widger the one that used to be a poacher and never did a day's work in his life, but now is a full corporal, and works hard on the land ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 247 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

GREYS

... I The Grey Dragoons and they wore grey then were recruited in the Scottish Lowlands to serve King Charles II. With jdfl firelock, sword, dirk and piflols |fl they fought the Covenanters fl and put down Argyll's rising. In 1694 they firfl went overseas, ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 44 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS--: An Experiment in Autobiography

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography By J. G. This is the first of a New Series of Fortnightly Articles. The Second Article of the Series will be Published on January 24 I WAS born in the year 1885, four months after General Gordon's death, when the outcry against Mr. Gladstone and his Government was still loud. It was a year of bitter distress, hunger and unemployment. It ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1760 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... When You See This Mark you will be reminded (hat Rollason Aircraft Services Ltd., and Rollason Aircraft Instruments and Equipment Ltd., have recently changed their name to FIELD CONSOLIDATED AIRCRAFT SERVICES LTD. FIELD AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS EQUIPMENT LTD. Tollerlon Aircraft Services is also owned by the F.C.A.S. group of companies, which undertakes the repair, servicing and maintenance of ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 889 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

Bronco

... J J 'IMH BLYntfte De Lux ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 30 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... McVITIE PIUTE I Biscuits of Highest Quality J £C3C3 ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 224 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Illustrations