War Office
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He submitted his plans for an idea of floating piers that could become harbours to the War Office, and was personally selected by Churchill for the project, soon to become known as the Mulberry Harbours.
From BBC ● May 31, 2024
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
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
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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