THE WAR OFFICE
NEW ACCOMMODATION ( British Official Wireless.] Received Aug. 12, 6.5 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 11. The War Ministry, which has outgrown the accommodation at Kingsway, has acquired a lease from the end of September of a building in Berkeley Square, occupying 330,000 square feet and accommodating about 3000 people, to serve at its headquarters. Georgian houses which made way for this new block of buildings, had many notable residents, including Horace Walpole, and one of the houses was formerly owned by Lord Strathmore.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 190, 13 August 1938, Page 9
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84THE WAR OFFICE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 190, 13 August 1938, Page 9
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