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
Nowadays you can check into a 17th-century former soap factory on the French Riviera, or part of the Old War Office in London, or a Renaissance-palazzo-style building that was once a bank in New York.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Opening at a time of war in Europe, the OWO — as the Old War Office has been delicately rebranded — is an evocative reminder of Britain’s wartime history.
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
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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