War Office
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In fact, documents concerning an essential mission, dubbed Operation Postmaster and undertaken by the British War Office, were only recently declassified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
The Old War Office, which was completed in 1906, is not the only London landmark that is being converted into a luxury hotel.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
One obstacle when researching first world war records is that more than half were destroyed in the second world war, when German bombers struck the War Office repository in London.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2019
Scarcely had it been declared than he was hammering on the doors of the British War Office, volunteering his services to whoever would have him.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017
During the 1740s the British War Office and Parliament commissioned two companies of colonial rangers and authorized more than a hundred men to serve in the Highland Rangers in Georgia.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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