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War Office
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Rosita Forbes | Having made several lecture tours in the USA (where she also sold as much journalistic writing as she could), she gave official lectures for the War Office
in the Caribbean, the USA, and Canada... |
| Employer | Ruth Pitter | During the first world war RP
went to work as a temporary junior clerk at the War Office
. The only part of this job she enjoyed was brewing the tea for fifty people. (She... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rosita Forbes | RF
married as her second husband Arthur Thomas McGrath
, another colonel, then on the War Office
general staff. She wore black for the wedding, in mourning for Rosita Forbes, but she kept her... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Godley | John Godley, who was a friend of Charlotte's brother Charles
, was born in Ireland on 29 May 1814, most likely at Dublin. He was the son of an Irish landowner, whose family home... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Kelly | Her son William Martin Kelly
turned out a disappointment. A recent biographer of Matthew Lewis
discounts stories that William's relationship with his patron was sexual. William, however, appears to have suffered, in typical young-gentleman fashion... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Daisy Ashford | DA
's father, William Henry Roxburghe Ashford
(1836-1912), was a former official at the War Office
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ray Strachey | |
| Friends, Associates | Isabella Kelly | Her friends or perhaps patrons included General Henry Seymour Conway
(father of the writer-sculptor Anne Damer
) and his whole family. Kelly, Isabella. A Collection of Poems and Fables. Richardson, 1794. 39-40 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | Aside from all this, Richardson found it difficult to write Dimple Hill because of her illness and breakdown she had suffered from. The summer before the collection was published, a young man renting the Odles'... |
| Occupation | Mary Kingsley | Her primary object was to serve the British War Office
as a war nurse. She had also arranged to act as a reporter for the Evening News and the Morning Post, though in practice... |
| Occupation | Rose Macaulay | A year after taking this job she was transferred from the War Office
to the Ministry of Information
, where she worked as a wartime bureaucrat. Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 89 Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991. 160-1 |
| Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was among the chief administrators of the Liverpool branch of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Family Association
(SSFA), the War Office
department distributing allowances to the families of enlisted men. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press, 1996. 40 |
| Occupation | Muriel Box | As well as writing for film and returning to continuity work, MB
embarked during the Second World War on a career as a director, working at first for Verity Films
. This had been founded... |
| Occupation | May Cannan | |
| politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
was sent to Holloway
in London for two weeks for breaking government-office windows in a suffrage demonstration: It pleases me still to remember that the War Office
fell to my pacifist hand. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 140 |
Timeline
21 September 1809
The political rivals Canning
of the British Foreign Office
and Castlereagh
, who was about to be removed from the War Office
, fought a dawn duel on Putney Heath south of London.
1862
A War Office
and Admiralty
committee recommended a system of voluntary treatment for diseased prostitutes, rather than legislating their medical care.
2 August 1907
The War Office
instituted the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, which would allow for a volunteer force ready to be mobilised in case of invasion or national emergency.
July 1908
The Territorial Force Nursing Service
(TFNS) was established as part of the War Office
's 1907 Territorial and Reserve Forces Act.
October 1914
A speech by Elsie Maud Inglis
effected the launching of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service
, an organization which made it possible for women to exercise medical skills in military settings, and significantly...
October 1914
The British War Office
and Home Office
combined to halt the payment of the separation allowance due to soldiers' wives during their husbands' absence at war, if the women were deemed Unworthy.
May 1916
Under the leadership of Christobel Ellis
, 20 women began driving army vehicles for the War Office
under the auspices of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
.
7 July 1917
The Army Council Instruction No. 1069 formally declared the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
(WAAC) was to substitute women for soldiers in certain home employment or on lines of communication overseas.
May 1940
The British embarked on a mass internment of enemy aliens, a category which included refugees from Germany and Austria.
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