Military

  The topic for publication on the London Shoes website this week, is an unusual one, as it focusses on a series of events of a particular time in London’s history, that are probably overshadowed by similar events that occurred some 25 years later. London’s war time history always, and quite understandably, references the ‘Blitz’ ...Read more...

The ‘Royal Air Force’ (e.g.RAF) was formed in April 1918, at the end of the First World War – by the merging the ‘Royal Flying Corp’ and the ‘Royal Naval Air Service’. Because the merger of both the military and naval operations in the new service, many of the titles of officers were deliberately chosen ...Read more...