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MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK

... MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK 20 BROAD STREET ABERDEEN 'Phones: 4770 (6 Lines) And the Lesson for Britain RELIEF at the great deliverance at Dunkirk has obscured the fact that the Belgian campaign has been a very great reverse for the Allied cause. The Prime Minister ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 569 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Heroes of Dunkirk

... Heroes of Dunkirk PHE King, who travelled to the west country yesterday to decorate officer heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation, made sixty miles' tour of a division in the Southern Command. Wherever he went the King was impressed, he said, by the excellent ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

VOLUNTEER AT DUNKIRK

... VOLUNTEER AT DUNKIRK. Mr Attlee told the w gs er yesterday that the to .„iis of those who helped ij osS e Dunkirk, but it wasi not complete record ot '--^''^ gave their services. , th e f * Mr Ellis Smith afJ e ueS tiO® V. would consider the o iW c ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COMMUNIQUE ON DUNKIRK

... COMMUNIQUE ON DUNKIRK Last night's French war communique Sl^, The _ embarkation of Allied troops from Dunkirk was completed to-day in co„Torm y with the pre-arranged plan. Until the last moment, first in the suburbs and then in the town itself, from ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK GENERAL

... DUNKIRK GENERAL Major-General H R. e l * an '? e j' officer to whom Lord Gort handed over command of the remaining troops at Dunkirk when ne returned to n.nglana, has been promoted Lieut.-Genera-. General Alexander, who' is. forty-eight, was one the youngest ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEROES

... DUNKIRK HEROES THE QUEEN TALKS TO When the Queen informally visited the Overseas Club, London, yesterday, a number of New Zealand and Canadian airmen, Newfoundland troops, South African sailors, and nurses from overseas, including some Australian nurses ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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

DUNKIRK GENERAL

... DUNKIRK GENERAL Major-General H R. Alexander, the officer to whom Lord Gort handed over command of the remaining troops at Dunkirk when he returned to England, has been promoted a Lieut.-General. General Alexander, who is forty-eight. was one of the youngest ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FROM DUNKIRK

... FROM DUNKIRK During the court hearing it was stated that both Beattie and Farr were in the evacuation from Dunkirk. Evidence was given that the bullet which hit Farr in the back was fired from the adjoining railway compartment. Fusilier David Simpson ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEROES

... DUNKIRK HEROES Mr Attlee said a record was being kept of those who helped in the operations at Dunkirk. but it Na , not possible to have a complete record of those who gallantly gave thei rservices. Mr Ellis Smith asked if the Government %%mild consider ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEROES

... DUNKIRK HEROES Gallantry at Dunkirk has earned the 0.8. E. for Capt. Richard Thomas, of the steamer Worthtown. of London, and the Medal of the 0.8. E. (Civil Division) for two of his crew—Gunner F V. Yates and Gunlayer W. H. Jensen. During incessant bombing ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEW ACCOUNT OF DUNKIRK

... NEW ACCOUNT OF DUNKIRK The New Contemptibles . . Mr Douglas Williams's slender volume of this title (John Murray: 1/-) contains first-rate material to which the historian will have to go when he writes of Dunkirk. The heroism emerges clear as a star ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none