British Army

Early in the second world war RFapplied for every kind of job in which languages and knowledge of foreign countries might be useful, until she settled for writing articles for journals, and in...

In 1915 Ford Madox Hueffer joined the British Army to fight against his father's country. He seems to have been careless whether he lived or died, and he had a narrow escape on the Somme...

From 1942 to 1945, ET worked as a medical coder for the US War Office in Cheltenham and London. She was attached to the Office of the Surgeon General. She says she adored army life...

During the second world war KN worked in education for the British Army .

After her father died in 1913, PB 's estranged fiancé, Ernan Forbes Dennis , contacted her through her publishers and suggested in a letter of condolence that they should become reacquainted as friends.During...

Her father, the Reverend Henry Vaughan Palmer , Rector of St Margaret's Church in York, was, she says, a scholarly gentleman, whose influence counterbalanced his daughter's resistance to learning during her youth. He...

After nearly five years as a widow, Mary Greig married her first cousin Dr William Somerville , a medical doctor in the service of the British Army .

ECK had two stepsisters and a stepbrother from her father's previous marriage. Her stepbrother died young as a captain in the British Army before she was born.

EF began to learn about politics after the end of the second world war, with the struggles of Jewish displaced persons to get to Palestine, the conflict between the Jewish nationalist Irgun and the...

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...

In 1849 RFB left India, where he had been serving with the British Army .