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... as an Assistant Land Commissioner. After serving with the Border Regiment during the war, he was released from Army service to become Land Com missioner for Cumberland, Westmorland and Durham, and in 1947 was appointed Pro vincial Land Commissioner for ...

MRS. G. J. CADDEY: Mrs. Caddey Will Be The First Woman To Judge Jersey Cattle At A Royal Show

... be judging the Jersey bull classes and this is the first time a woman has been invited to judge either the male or female Jersey classes at a Royal Show. She will, in lact, be the only woman judge officiating in the catde classes at Newcastle. This is a ...

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... A WOMAN LIEUTENANT OF THE MAU MAU--A CAPTURE BY BRITISH TROOPS DURING A RECENT OFFENSIVE AGAINST TERRORISTS IN KENYA: Sitting sullenly on the ground after her capture by soldiers of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers is this Mau Mau army officer. She ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 301 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

TROOPS IN NAIROBI: CHINESE PRISONERS IN KOREA; GERMAN GENERALS RETURN FROM RUSSIA; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN ..

... THE UNITED STATES APPOINTS A WOMAN AMBASSADOR TO SWITZER LAND, WHERE WOMEN DO NOT VOTE Dr. Frances Willis, seen on arrival at Berne, where she was met by M. Robert Maurice, the Chief of Protocol. She is the first woman Ambassador to be appointed to ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 851 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NORTH SEA DISASTER: The British Railways Passenger Ship Duke of York in Collision with the American ..

... survivors landed at Harwich, many were wrapped in blankets over their night-clothes or were wearing an odd assortment of borrowed clothing. Some of the women were barefoot. Survivors gave accounts of quiet courage and coolness in the rescues. An Army Officer ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 498 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

FAR EAST CRISIS

... ISLAND: An Army officer on Quemoy give* Instruction* In the use o grenades to a group of villagers. The class was held in case of a Communist invas ion Island. On left-- Nationalist soldiers rest in the shade of a large tarpaulin on h landing craft. They ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 480 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GREAT CHANNEL RACE: NINE COMPETITORS SWIM FROM FRANCE TO ENGLAND, TWO OF THEM IN RECORD TIME

... Hassan Abd el Rehim, battled out the last mi close company. Another Egyptian was thr the first Briton home was Sam Rockett. woman to land was the Dewsbury Fenton, who, although her right arm useless, battled on until she haulro shuddering and gasping through ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 655 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

Britain's forgotten women

... from this courageous woman the dreams of sexual love which had come to her sixty years earlier. More fortunate men and women may talk about the prestige of the career woman, the freedom of spinsterhood, and the degradation of woman's servitude in marriage ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1956
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2673 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

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... with a peasant woman of Thrace, who had just presented him with a bouquet. The Supreme Commander in Europe arrived in Greece after first visiting Turkey. In Thrace, the northernmost Greek province, he took the opportunity of watching Army manoeuvres. The ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 721 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs