... ^HBj£3Ciirame' BOMBED CHILDREN FROM LEWISHAM RECUPERATE IN COUNTRY MANSIONS Some of the pirls at Gravcombe House heloine to move a chicken run GIRLS WHO ARE BUILDING COMMANDO BARGES IN A BRITISH SHIPYARD Women workers filing the edges of the portholes of one of the Tank Landing Craft under construction in Scotland THE NEW GOOD CONDUCT BADGE OF THE W.R.N.S. which has just been issued I This is ...

... ft WREN TORPEDOMEN hoisting a torpedo, or tin-fish aboard a naval coastal craft at a British naval port. Looking after the tail part of a torpedo when it is hoisted away ifn the Wren Torpedomen have overhauled it. A gang of Wren Torpedomen working above and below a torpedo a job that means the release of men for more vital duties at sea. Learning how to set the preselected range and depth ...

... The Marchioness of Abergavenny By Olive Snell The Marchioness of Abergavenny was Miss Nellie Larnach before her marriage in 1909. She is the daughter of the late James Walker Larnach and the late Lady Isabel Larnach, and is a granddaughter of the 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery. Her home is Eridge Castle, Tunbridge Wells, and besides being a member of the W.V.S. she is Vice-President of the Red ...

... BliRIILE ami SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere How many times shall I bow? said the novice entertainer at the battalior variety show. Bow? said the stage manager. No bowing for you, mate-- you'] nave to ciuck. /^\ne day, Hitler, very bothered and nervous, said to Goering: Hermann, how much longer have we got food for? Goering, with a smile of satisfaction, replied: Oh! for about ten years. ...

... One of the new ideas of this war is the Rehabilitation Course for wounded men after hospital treatment: the R.A.F. men seen in the three pictures above are thus being rehabilitated. As soon as is fitting, the patient is allowed to leave his bed, and then becomes the subject of a carefully worked-out scientific plan to get him, little by little, back to normal by action and move ment. ...

... Over the whole of the Mediterranean battlefront, the Axis have up to now lost nearly 6,000 machines. Each week sees between thirty and fifty more products of the Messerschmitt, Junkers, Heinkel and Caproni factories coming to earth with a bang for the last time. Unquestionably, the greater part of the Axis casualties must be credited to the R.A.F. If one contrasts the part played by Rommel's ...

... . This beautiful portrait of H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF KENT shows her with her younger son, H.R.H. PRINCE MICHAEL OF KENT. He was born in 1942 on July 4, American Independence Day, and a fete hours after his birth, his father, the late Duke of Kent, telegraphed to the President of the United States to ask if he would be a godfather. Mr. Roosevelt at once accepted, and the young Prince was given ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MAJOR LE PATOUREL, for being probably tbe only posthumous living V.C. on record. The posthumous award of the V.C. for gallantry in Tunisia to CAPTAIN (temp. Major) HERBERT WALLACE LE PATOUREL, The Hampshire Regiment, is probably the only known case of a posthumous V.C. being awarded to a living man. On December 31 MRS. LE PATOUREL received news of her sons death in ...

... NEW DEANNA DURBIN PICTURE THE AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY. 44 rr* HE AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY, new Universal J- picture, was due at the Leicester Square Theatre on March 19. Deanna Durbin as a missionary girl in China undertakes to shepherd nine tots to safety from war dangers. This entails many adventures, including survival from torpedo sinking with eight children in tow. In order to get into the ...

... A NEW ORSON WELLES PRODUCTION-- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. 0i it with he husband Wilbur Minafer (DONALD DILLAWAY), Isabel Ambers fDOLORES COSTELLO^ meets her one-time lover Eugene Morgan (JOS' PH COTTEN), whom she threw over when he became drunk. George Minafer and Lucy Morgan fall head over heels in love, but not before the outspoken y oung man has spoken disparagingly of her father of ...

... BOLD CHECKS LITTLE FROCKS THERE is great satisfaction in being able to obtain something that one really likes, and this is always the case at Liberty's, Regent Street. Illustrated above is a light, nevertheless warm, wrap-coat the material is rather difficult to describe, as it is not quite a fleece, nor is it camel. The pockets are piped, and so is the collar, which is very becoming. There ...

... m. GENERAL GIRAUD MAKING HIS IMPORTANT PROCLAMATION On Sunday, March 14, General Giraud made his long-expected announce ment on future policy in regard to North Africa and on the post-war aims of the French nation. The proclamation was made in the presence of refugees from Alsace-Lorraine and it was broadcast (by direct link-up) to the United States and Britain. Seated behind is Mr. Harold ...