Refine Search

10,000,000 Medals

... Defence Medal and the War Medal. It is the biggest hand-out of war decorations this country has known. The mass-award of medals to civilians for war service it has never happened before is a recogni tion that the late war brought to the home front dangers ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1083 | Page: 60 | Tags: Photographs 

ROUND THE WORLD ON THE EVE OF 1948: A Survey of the News in Pictures

... ), who recently received the United States Navy's Distinguished Service Medal, standing beside his bride, Anna Chan. They were married recently at the bridegroom's Shanghai home. The bride is a Shanghai reporter, and is the daughter of a one-time Chinese ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 816 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: from Scotland

... Tarbert Harris, the home of the famous Harris tweeds. Mrs. John Macdonald was spinning wool that she had given to the Institutes, which had been grown on sheep on her farm and which she her self had washed and dyed. She told me that at home she not only spins ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2116 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court News

... Marshal Lord Birdwood, in khaki with six rows of medals, young Lord Kitchener, who when a child went to a kindergarten with the bride his mother. Viscountess Broome, in mushroom pink. Lady Ursula Home in blue and white. Count and Countess Edward Raczynski ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2385 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs