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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 

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... 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 

STEEL NETS to TRAP the U-BOATS: A New Idea from the United States

... STEEL NETS to TRAP the U-BOATS A New Idea from the United States In the last war, nets were used as anti submarine defences at British, French and Italian naval harbours and bases. A large establishment was organised at Shotley, near Harwich, for their pro duction, at which 597 miles of nets, a dead weight of 105,150 tons, were turned out by naval labour. To-day, the United States have gone ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 523 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

HUMBER

... H LIMBER In war as in peace the choice of experience LTD. IliliiiS COVENTRY ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 15 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... A VOTE oF THANKS TO THE H OFFICERS MEN OF THE MERCHANT Mil _ _ver the horizon, you KBI 111 Out of sight r;^n0fthteheCMerVcOhanSt Navy are never out of our MB O^ers and Men of th and^children-- are of°therSeven Seas. SECONDED BY Name: Message Address: Send your Thanks to Sea by a donation to the Merchant Navy Comforts Service, 62 Heath Street, Hampstead, London, N.W.3. Cheques to be made ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 640 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... Also at A Id er shot, Bristol, Manchester c Portsmouth Bournemouth. Catnberley Droitwich Hove, Hkley, Llandrindod. Wells Salisbury, Shoreham, Shrivenham, York. rvice for l/iny Visitors There's a feeling of spring in the air, remarked a flying- officer who had come in to see us. I noticed it early yes terday morning over Cologne. I Do you think, he asked anxiously, I could have a I new ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 384 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

The STORY of H.M.S. ELECTRA

... Fifty-four of whose Survivors were Plucked out of the Java Sea by a U.S. Submarine Special Sphere Drawings and Diagrams On left The British destroyer Electra was a vessel of 1,375 tons. In the Battle of the Java Seas she waj ordered to counter-attack about fifteen minutes after th cruiser Exeter had been hit. As the Electra cleared th smoke three heavy enemy destroyers were sighted on opposite ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 752 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

HOW SWITZERLAND STANDS TO-DAY

... Why the Swiss have Sent a Trade Mission to Britain; How They Maintain Their Industries in the Midst of Warring Nations; and How the Conflict Has Affected Trade and Social Life in the Small Neutral Republic By CHARLES GRAVES THE arrival of the Swiss Trade Mission headed by Dr. Hans Sulzer, formerly Swiss Minister to Washington, Professor Rappard, the Economic Expert of Geneva, and Professor ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1438 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

BLACK & WHITE

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Published: Saturday 28 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 14 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... Art m an f Q U E E N S m J fie Queens Ou>n Royxi I lOeit Jfervt Regiment From 1740 lo 1748 known as the SOth Regiment of Foot (the Fighting Half Hundred). Became the West Kent Regiment in 1782. Because of an outbreak of Ophthalmia in 1797-99 was nicknamed the Blind Half Hundred. Named Duke of Clarence's Regiment of Foot 1827 and the Queen's Own in 1830. J Highland Queen GRAND LIQUEUR SCOTCH ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 219 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations