... Major-General C. F. Liardet, C.B., D.S.O. j In 1942 Major-Gen. Claude Francis Liardet became Director-General of Ground Defence, Air Ministry, and Commandant of the newly-formed Royal Air Force Regiment. Educated at Bedford School, Major-Gen. Liardet was gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant to the Lancashire Artillery in 1899, transferring to the Lancashire and Cheshire R.G.A. some years later. He ...

... -/4 By Sabretache One The Forty EVERY past officer and man of the famous 40th Pathans, whose regimental nick name was the Forty Thieves, will, I feel, be grieved at the news of the death of their late commanding officer, General Sir Frederick Campbell, for during the time that I knew them he was very well liked indeed. He originally was in The Guides, but later went to that other celebrated ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart How Far A SMART rap over the knuckles is my usual return for talking about women pilots. Yet when Moscow proudly announces that Guards Lieutenant Lily Livak had shot down twelve German aircraft before she herself was killed in action on the Kharkov front, it is difficult to avoid the subject altogether. Women nowadays wear wings without necessarily being angels. ...

... WHEN BERLIN FIRST WOKE UP TO ITS GREAT PERIL. It was towards the end of July that Berliners first began to learn by the lessons of Hamburg they then began to realise that they were next on the list for the attention of the R.A.F., when the nights grew longer. Hundreds of them, under instructions, began to dig shelters out in the open Hamburg had taught them that shelters within buildings were ...

... THE ever-increasing popularity of the Suffolk horse is leading to the keenest competition for him. Buyers from all over England and Wales attend the sales and the number of pure-breds now in the Stud Book shows how the breed is forging ahead. In order to assist new breeders in choosing their stallions, mares and foals, Sport and Country has selected typical specimens at source-- Suffolk-bred. ...

... TN 1924 Mr. J. H. -1- Dorrington pur chased the 316-acre Dunsby Farm at a very reasonable price for potato-growing land in the fens. Since then, by judicious pur chases, Mr. Dorrington has increased the size of his holding to 900 acres. He has brought the land into first-class condition and reno vated the house and' farm buildings. The main crops are those of the district potatoes and wheat ...

... ^Rush- Bearing THE rush-bearing ceremony shown in the pictures is of con siderable antiquity-- the original custom is said to be nearly a thousand years old. The floors of early churches and halls were either flagged or, more often, merely of earth. They were cold and damp, so the practice developed of strewing them with green rushes, sedge, or hay in summer and straw in winter At fixed ...

... 0 ANOTHER living link with the past has gone. Edward Ray, that lovable giant of the links, died recently in a Watford hospital after a long illness. Edward Ray, affectionately known to every one in sport as Ted, was a real character and was immortalised by that king of sporting cartoonists, Tom Webster, for Tom always drew Ted with his large-sized pipe billowing smoke, and more often than ...

... WAV OF THE WAR By Foresight Collapse IT will be some time before all the facts are known about the events which led to the surrender of Italy. Undoubtedly Marshal Badoglio was set on this course the moment he threw Mussolini from power and accepted leadership of the nation under King Victor. Even so, there is an air of mystery about this dramatic development which gives an Oppenheim ...

... 44 Uncle Vanya Norman Marshall's Company in a Chekov Tragi-Comedy Norman Marshall's Company was founded at the end of last year by the Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust in conjunction with C.E.M.A. Its headquarters are at Cambridge, but the Company spend only a part of their time there, playing frequently in other towns. Besides Uncle Vanya, their repertoire includes Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Pinero's ...

... Miss Coral Browne to Star in My Sister Eileen Bender Coral Browne is to take the part of the elder Sherwood sister the part played by Rosalind Russell in the film when Firth Sliephard presents My Sister Eileen at the Savoy Theatre on Wednesday next. Coral Browne is an Australian. Born in Melbourne in 1913, she first intended to become a painter. Later she succumbed to the fascination of the ...

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