Royal Air Force

FS published her first article in the Times: about the capture by rebels and the negotiated release of two RAF pilots during the process of British handover of Iraq to the Iraqis.

Back in Baghdad in October 1931, FS began to increase her writing pace. The Royal Air Force printed her maps, and she published in the Geographical Journal. She also disguised herself in an 'abba...

This text details Stark's attempt to reach the buried site of Shabwa; this failed when she experienced an angina attack and was rescued by the RAF . Harry St John Philby became the first...

GBS was visited during the second world war by an RAF officer who had the greatest admiration for her Rakonitz novels (which had been recommended to him by his aunt, who lived in the same...

Three years later, Abem Finkel and Lesser Samuels adapted this play for film. The cinematic version, starring Rita Hayworth and Lee Bowman , was titled Tonight and Every Night. It turns Rosalind into an...

They had met as fellow members of High Wycombe Theatre Club; John's father was then Mayor of High Wycombe. Elizabeth was strongly attracted to John, and was wildly excited when she found herself pregnant...

ET and her family had their first spell at Scarborough in Yorkshire, where her husband was posted as a reservist with the wartime RAF . They were there again for about the same season...

Sarah was close to her father, Ron, an engineer working in oil refineries who had done his National Service with the RAF . She found him a great inspirer, who made up stories for...