Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Alice and the Duke are both children of the late Duke of Albany, the son of Queen Victoria...
...badly delayed by subways which had been damaged or which lay near unexploded time bombs. Post offices shut down during raids. Let ters took three days to get across London, five to reach the country; and telegrams were almost as bad. Long-distance tele phoning was practically impossible. Euston, Victoria and Waterloo railway sta tions were badly damaged; the Victoria train shed, a massive thing of girder and glass, was crushed across tracks...
Another day he took the Queen (who had been selecting 60 suites of Great-grandma Victoria's furniture from Windsor Castle to give to people bombed out of their homes) for a tour of bombed Chelsea, Fulham, Marylebone. In Chelsea ARPers told Their Majesties how they had worked seven and a half hours moving ten tons of wreckage to free a girl: they had had to use their bodies as struts to hold up the debris while tunneling. Said the King: "You have done grand work." Said George Pitman: "It's all in the day's work...
...thud of bombs from low-diving Nazi raiders. A bomb dropping through the glass roof of the private chapel, a converted conservatory, had blasted chunks of masonry out of the wall, demolished the altar, shattered a mother-of-pearl cross. In the midst of the rubble they found Queen Victoria's ornately bound Family Bible. But already removed to safety was the gold altar plate of King Charles I. In the inner quadrangle two more bombs had plowed into the ground...
Britain hands out many lesser decorations, but the Victoria Cross is awarded sparingly, only for "conspicuous bravery . . . in the presence of the enemy." Last week were awarded the seventh, eighth and ninth V.C.s of World War II, for deeds of extraordinary daring: Acting Flight Lieutenant Roderick Learoyd, 27, pilot of one of five Hampden bombers assigned on Aug. 12 to destroy a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems Canal. His story...