Images Dated 30th September 2019

Lady Milbanke at Mullaboden with her children

Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929). She later married Sir John Milbanke and then thirdly Prince Dmitri Romanoff in 1954. In 1920, Albert, Duke of York, the future King George VI was linked romantically with Sheila who, at that point, was still a married woman. Pictured with her sons from her first marriage, Lord Loughborough and the Hon. Peter St. Clair-Erskine at the Milbanke home of Mullaboden in County Kildare. Date: 1931

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Uniformed female workers in British war services, April 1941

A selection of women involved in British war services including the Women's Royal Naval Services, the Women's Auxiliary Territorials Service, the Red Cross, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the Women's Transport Service, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, the Women's Auxiliary Fire Service, the Women's Voluntary Service, the Women's Auxiliary Transport Service, the Women's Land Army and St John's Ambulance Brigade. The accompanying article praises the "courage, devotion and determination of British womanhood", particularly the Women's Land Army in East Kent who continued to plough during raids by German dive-bombers, resulting in their secretary receiving an M.B.E. Date: 1941

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America - Ethan Allen Takes Fort Ticonderoga

Ethan Allen Takes Fort Ticonderoga During The American War of Independence in Northern New York Date: 1776

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