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On the Outskirts of Dunkirk

... the Outskirts of Dunkirk LIGHT ON BELGIAN ARMY'S COLLAPSE u By G. E. Ley Smith and jerkily through the night the machine-gun battalion ° f Gordons made its way northwards towards the Yser. and again the roads were blocked by the transport of various v ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1089 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FROM DUNKIRK

... FROM DUNKIRK News of Old Sys LEADING STOKER CHARLES HUGHES, recently horns ea Mimi leave, wed •on a destroyer Port In the naval operation withdrawal from Ho Paid tribute to the work of the Meteor gnaws of aarell craft. Gunner Trevor J. Evans is keenly ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 2190 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SEPARATED AT DUNKIRK

... SEPARATED AT DUNKIRK The wife of Trooper Edmund Smith, the 7th Batto., Royal Tank Regiment, it anxious for newt of him Trooper Smith, who was reported mltalng on 25 May, became separated from his comrades at Dunkirk. Before he was recalled to the Colours ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 631 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WITH THE. WORCESTERS TO DUNKIRK

... WITH THE. WORCESTERS TO DUNKIRK BY ONE WHO WAS THERE An interesting story of the experiences of a Battalion of The Worcestershire Regiment in the campaign in Belgium, has been supplied to the Register by an Evesham soldier, home on leave, who was ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: Tewkesbury Register
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 949 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FELL AT DUNKIRK

... FELL AT DUNKIRK. Memorial Service for Gallant Devonian. LIEUT. E. L. GIBBS. In the peaceful setting of the English countryside, and in a typical village church nestling amid the vivid green Nature, there took place on Saturday a memorial service for one ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 858 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK MIRACLE

... DUNKIRK MIRACLE was sura that Dunkirk was the moral and strategic turning point in the war. Hitler's plans war* shattered at that point and the aspect of the war changed. Had the BXT. not been saved miraculously it might have bean possible to invade certain ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 583 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Miracle of Dunkirk

... The Miracle of Dunkirk Sir, —I feel, like many others, that the great day of national prayer the answer to simple faith began last week in the miraculous withdrawal of our troops from overwhelming tragedy at Dunkirk. We have to thank God for the strength ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COMMEMORATING DUNKIRK

... COMMEMORATING DUNKIRK T3IRMIN GH craftsmanship has another feather in its cap. the recent Red Cross sale at Christie’s the silver gilt beaker bought Lord Queensborough for £270 was the work of Cyril J. Shiner, who has done much maintain the local tradition ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 197 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK SURVIVOR

... DUNKIRK SURVIVOR Plymouth Bride For Naval Rating Sto. Kenneth Hannaford, R.N., a survivor H.M. destroyer Havant. sunk during the evacuation of Dunkirk, and e'dest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hannaford, 7, St. Johns-road, Prince Rock, Plymouth, was married ...

Published: Monday 28 October 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ABOUT DUNKIRK

... ABOUT DUNKIRK I am told there are too many books being written about Dunkirk already. 1 doubt that statement, as too much cannot be writen on such an epic. Anyway, there is room for this soireture gay (not always), personal account the adventures a British ...

WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK

... WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK Among the wounded in the War Office casualty list, issued today, of 70 officers and 882 other ranks, is the name of Lieut. Vivian Emery Cornelius (Grenadier Guards), a native of Liverpool, who was for a time partner in the Liverpool ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 222 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK IS TRACED

... the streets of Dunkirk during the' evacuation was a kitbag belonging to a British officer, a captain in the R.A.O.C. Like many others, he was forced to drop his pack in the race to safety. Mr. A. J. Lusty, manager or an hotel at Dunkirk and one of the ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 4529 | Page: 15 | Tags: none