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NAZIS CLAIM 40,000 PRISONERS

... NAZIS CLAIM 40,000 PRISONERS The following special announcement the German High Command was issued last night:— The fortress Dunkirk has been taken after fierce fighting. _ Forty thousand prisoners and booty which cannot yet be estimated have fallen into ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SIGNALMAN MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES

... been mentioned in depatches. A supplementary reservist, called up at the outbreak, he went to France and was evacuated from Dunkirk. H i home address is 25 Gardner Street. An elder brother, David, is serving with the R.A.M.C. His father, Mr Peter Wyllie ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 68 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EARL OF CAVAN'S BROTHER MISSING

... J. O. Lambart. who is missing, believed killed, while commanding H M.S. Grive, which was sunk during the evacuation from Dunkirk, is the elder brother and heir presumptive of Field Marshal the Earl of Cavan, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1922-26 ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PAYMENT REFUSED. NEWS FOR KNITTERS. A Dorset firm of motor-boat builders There will be fewer colours and fewer ..

... winter hut the Wool lifeboat when she returned damaged after Controller's slogan is: No shortage. if taking part in the Dunkirk evacuation. no wastaw Navy blue, medium green They have done the work and now refuse and golden nigger are among the colours ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Only 70 men registered at Cupar on Saturday for military service—the lowest figure yet recorded in the town ..

... the navy. A dance was held in the Social Clubrooms, GlenfaiKT, help roplace the personal belongings of the Scottish heroes Dunkirk. The dance, organised Mr M. Sinclair, postman, who provided the accordion music, realised £4 5s 6d. Mr James Brunt«m, postman ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SPORTS TOPICS i• • •

... pyjama suits, 30.000 dressing 'gowns, and tens of thousands of slippers was necessitated by the return of the troops from Dunkirk. the Red Cross and St John War Organisation have announce I. Recent fighting has resulted great losses of Red Cross material ...

ARBIRLOT SOLDIER WOUNDED

... pital in England with slight shrapnel wound. Frank, who a private in the K.A.S.C., received his wound in the evacuation from Dunkirk. According to the French r..dio the have been trying conceal ■age wounded soldiers hrotigh German towns by sounding ir raid ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DUNDEE MAN A PRISONER

... third son of Mr and Mrs Alex- Anderson, 67 Sandeman Street, and his eldest brother, who is a Regular, was evacuated from Dunkirk. Their father served with the Cameron Highlanders in the last war and was wounded several times. Private Alexander Anderson ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SUNDAY

... personalities. Seven arrests in Dundee. TUESDAY Announced that the last of the British and French troops had been evacuated from Dunkirk. Mr Churchill revealed that 335,000 men had been saved. B.E.F. casualties, killed, wounded and missing were over 30,000. But ...

GERMANY'S OIL SHORTAGE

... This might even be one reason for the new drive that began to-day without -y interval on the day following the fall of Dunkirk.'? ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

SHIPPING LOSSES DOWN

... of 30,830 tons, and two Allied of 10,646 tons. The average weekly losses during the are just under 63,000 tons, excluding Dunkirk. ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PRINLAWS SOLDIER’S PROMOTION

... to Franee as sergeant with the K. 0.5.8.5. For bravery Belgium he was awarded the Military Medal. In the evacuation from Dunkirk he spent three days and two nights on the beach. ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: 2 | Tags: none