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Volume 3 - No. 60 - October 25, 1940

Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Eric C. T. Wilson

Oct1940

Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Eric C. T. Wilson

Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Eric C. T. Wilson, the East Surrey Regiment, attached Somaliland Camel Corps, was awarded the V.C. on Oct. 12, 1940, for conspicuous gallantry in Somaliland. The official a

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London

Oct1940

London

(Si monumentum requiris, circumspice) Old London's time-encrusted walls Are but the work of human hands. What man has fashioned for us falls; What God has breathed into us stands. What if the

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings From the Editor's Wartime Diary
  • Eastward Ho! Stream the Banners of War
  • For War in the Pacific Bases Are All-Important
  • Britain Unshaken by Nazi Reprisal Attacks
  • Nazi Ruthlessness Assails Our National Shrines
  • When Enemy 'Planes Yield Their Secrets
  • R.A.F. Weave a Web of Destruction Over Germany
  • After 31 Days and Nights of Ruthless Bombing
  • London Life in the Blitzkrieg: Getting Used to it!
  • Despite Hitler's 'Blockade' We Deliver the Goods
  • The Spitfire - The World's Finest Fighter
  • Dunkirk to Dakar: Crises of the Summer
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Eric C. T. Wilson
  • I Was There! - Sergeant Hannah Told Me the Fire Was Out
  • I Was There! - I Watched the Navy Pound Cherbourg
  • Our Diary of the War
  • London
  • Items of War Interest from Far and Near