Refine Search

Newspaper

Sketch, The

Countries

Counties

London, England

Access Type

15

Type

15

Public Tags

More details

The Sketch

THE REAL ROMMEL AND THE VON STROHEIM FILM ROMMEL

... THE REAL ROMMEL AND THE VON STROHEIM FILM ROMMEL FIELD-MARSHAL ROMMEL, the desert fox, German Commander in North Africa, as he is in real life. ERICH VON STROHEIM'S film presentation of Rommel. A scene from Five Graves to Cairo, with FRANCHOT TONE as ...

Published: Wednesday 14 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 246 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

MONTY'S CHARGER--ROMMEL'S CAIRO VICTORY MOUNT!

... MONTY'S CHARGER- ROMMEL'S CAIRO VICTORY MOUNT I FIELD-MARSHAL SIR BERNARD MONTGOMERY, our great and victorious commander, is mounted on his new charger, the spirited white Arab stallion which formerly belonged to Rommel. It teas procured by the German ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 119 | Page: 1 | Tags: Photographs 

ADMIRAL ON A GOOD-WILL TOUR

... Commando raid on Rommel's H.Q. in North Africa in 1941. He said that he regretted he had been unable to thank Rommel for his generous behaviour on that occasion. Colonel Keyes went to kill him, and did kill four of his staff officers, but Rommel accorded him ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

MONTY'S MENAGERIE

... l Montgomery adds to his collection of pets, of which those on this page are probably a mere sample. The dogs, HITLER and ROMMEL, have had a pretty good Press so far, but the others are less well known to the public. The nameless tame rabbit was painted ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 271 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

MORE SURREALISTIC THAN SURREALISM ITSELF: WAR DÉBRIS IN THE WAKE OF THE FLYING AXIS DERELICT ARMAMENTS IN THE ..

... STRANGE shapes are left behind littering the North African desert as the Eighth Army and the Allied Air Force drive on, sending Rommel's armies ever westward, from Egypt into Libya, and on. Surrealism in painting and music and literature foretold oddly correctly ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

MONTY SOLVES THE HOUSING PROBLEM!

... satisfied with his surroundings Portraits of three defeated enemy leaders adorn the walls of one caravan they are (I. to r.) Rommel, Himmler and Doenitz. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 138 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

The Sketch-Book

... in the contents of this predigested publication a feature What Really Happened to Rommel. By Countess Waldeck. Condensed from Forum. The lady set out to prove that Rommel was a genius, a patriot, a gentleman, a martyr, and a wag. In fact, he was such a ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1553 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

New Command for Field Marshal SIR CLAUDE AUCHINLECK

... Marshal SIR CLAUDE AUCHINLECK, G.C.B., G.C.I.E., C.S.I. D.S.O., O.B.E. Photographed by WALTER BIRD. THE AUK, who handed Rommel his first defeat in the battle for Egypt, has now quite a different sort of command. As President of the London Federa tion ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 201 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEW CHIEF OF COMBINED OPERATIONS, WITH HIS WIFE

... jumped into a British tank standing close by, drove it at the Germans and escaped. He also took part in the Commando raid on Rommel's Libyan Headquarters in 1941, and his gallant and distinguished work in SicilyJ won him the D.S.O. MAJOR-GENERAL R. E. LAYCOCK ...

Published: Wednesday 03 November 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... BRIGADIER R. EDWARD LAYCOCK, D.S.O., Royal Horse Guards, has been awarded the D.S.O. for his part in the Commando raid on Rommel's H.Q. in Libya. He and a sergeant were the only two of the party to get away they regained the British lines after a forty-day ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 663 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... Montgomery, Commander of the Eighth Army, likes to wear the badges of many of the units whom he led in his magnificent chase of Rommel across Libya and Cyrenaica. The hat is extremely chic and starts a dashing fashion. PILOT OFFICER COLIN HODGKINSON, R.A.F ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 439 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--

... uniform with two 44 pips up. Mr. Eden did not mention the amazing desert exploit carried out by Maclean during our fight with Rommel, when he got behind the Gcrjnau lines with a small party, and shot up transport and supplies. Continued .j half-crazed pilot ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 569 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs