The Minister For War Sees For Himself -- Mr. Shinwell (light hat) watching a team of Auxiliary Territorial Service girls handling a Predictor on a gun-site at Bostall Health, near London. Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, Minister for War, made a tour of various anti-aircraft and searchlight sites in the London area, seeing for himself the conditions under which the modern Army lives and works. January 04, 1948.