War Office

DA 's father, William Henry Roxburghe Ashford (1836-1912), was a former official at the War Office . After he married Emma, Willie's step-children referred to him as father and they grew very fond of him...

AB 's novel Lord Raingo created a commotion because the characters were based on real people in the Ministry of Information run by the War Office .

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...

Before the war MC qualified herself as a VAD ; she took a number of exams under the auspices of the Red Cross and other organisations, and worked as a hospital volunteer. Before she was...

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...

During the summers RF and her husband would travel together through the European countries which Arthur McGrath 's War Office job made his particular concern. Seeing Europe between the wars was, wrote RF ,...

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...

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...

Her husband's death left IK with only seven shillings in the world, and arrears of (half)-pay which the War Office never paid. She was later proud of bringing up her family by her own...

Her friends or perhaps patrons included General Henry Seymour Conway (father of the writer-sculptor Anne Damer ) and his whole family.Matthew Lewis (though given his general view of fiction by women he may...

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...

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...

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. She was then, because of her fluent...

In April 1862 FN had also engaged in correspondence with the War Office and with Gladstone to express her disapproval of any attempts to regulate prostitution. Earlier, in 1860, while a government commission pondered providing...

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...