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
Instead, Walsh recalls the famous figures who worked in the Old War Office, from Winston Churchill to T.E.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
In World War II, the British War Office had a contract with Penguin Books to make paperback editions of “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion” that could fit in soldier’s pockets.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2020
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
Looked as though there might be something in the rumour that the Admiralty or the War Office or the Air Force had got hold of it....
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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