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Number 72 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films: Happy Event: Patrick Brunner: Diana Magwood, H. Seaton, Gordon Leslie: Drama short: Hell's Cargo: Harold Huth: Walter Rilla, Kim Peacock, Robert Newton: Adventure: Home from Home: Herbert Smith: Sandy Powell, René Ray, Kathleen Harrison: Comedy drama: Hospital Hospitality: William Christie
1 October – call-up proclamation: All men aged 20–21 must register with the military authorities. 7 October – cruiser HMS Emerald departs Plymouth in convoy for Halifax, Nova Scotia, carrying £2M in gold bar to be used for purchase of military materiel in North America, a predecessor of Operation Fish.
Pages in category "1939 in the United Kingdom" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Pages in category "1939 in England" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1939 Batley and Morley by-election; 1939 Birmingham Aston by-election;
April – a left-wing Festival of Music for the People is held in London. Participants include a pageant for 500 singers and 100 dancers featuring the American singer Paul Robeson as soloist, a balalaika orchestra playing Russian tunes, music by Alan Bush, and Benjamin Britten's Ballad of Heroes with words by W.H. Auden and Randall Swingler, performed by "Twelve Co-operative and Labour Choirs ...
Between May 1939 and the end of the Second World War, the armoured division went through nine organisational changes. In 1939, it was intended that an armoured division would have 110 light tanks, 217 cruiser tanks, and 24 cruiser tanks equipped with howitzers for close support, as well as 2,500 other vehicles, 9,442 men, and 16 field guns.
The UK's Operation Shader is ongoing as part of intervention in Iraq and Syria (2014–present) 3,000+ ISIL fighters killed in 1,700 British airstrikes. [61] [62] Ongoing operations by UK Special Forces in Syria. British armed forces provide material and training to Iraqi Security Forces and Peshmerga. [63] [64]
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. There was ...