War Office

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Rosita Forbes
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.
Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell.
89-90
Seeing Europe between the wars was, wrote RF ,...
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...
Occupation May Cannan
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...
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...
Textual Production Arnold Bennett
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 .
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
26
Williams, Orlo. “New Novels: Lord Raingo”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1289, p. 694.
694
Family and Intimate relationships Daisy Ashford
DA 's father, William Henry Roxburghe Ashford (1836-1912), was a former official at the War Office .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
After he married Emma, Willie's step-children referred to him as father and they grew very fond of him...

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