War Office
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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This included persuading the War Office of the benefits of using sphagnum moss for wound dressings.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
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
Yet just across Whitehall, a billionaire property developer is close to completing an extravagant conversion of the Old War Office, an Edwardian-era monument to Britain’s imperial past.
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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