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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

ALLIES DEFIANT AT DUNKIRK

... ALLIES DEFIANT AT DUNKIRK Paris, Tuesday. GERMAN attacks are continuing, but in vain, against the fortified area of Dunkirk, said the French military spokesman to-day. In spite of artillery and air bombardment, embarkation of the troops is still going ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LIFEBOATMEN REFUSED TO GO TO DUNKIRK

... LIFEBOATMEN REFUSED TO GO TO DUNKIRK IpOLLOWING a Royal National Lifeboat Institution inquiry into the refusal of the crew of Hythe lifeboat to assist in the B.E.F. evacuation at Dunkirk. the coxswain and motor mechanic have been dismissed from the lifeboat ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

t Naval Honours For Dunkirk

... t Naval Honours For Dunkirk list of honours to the Navy's heroes of Dunkirk are made for good services in organising the withal to Britain, under fire and in the face of many Teat difficulties, of 335,490 officers and men of the Armies in about 1000 ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 435 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LAST TROOPS DUNKIRK NIGHTMARE TRIPS ON SMALL BOATS

... LAST TROOPS DUNKIRK NIGHTMARE TRIPS ON SMALL BOATS ADRIFT in the Channel throughout yesterday and all last night after being machine-gunned from the shore as they escaped, the last troops to leave Dunkirk arrived at ports along the south-east coast to-day ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 439 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEW B.E.F. IS IN FRANCE MEN WITH SAME SPIRIT AS DUNKIRK HEROES

... spirit that brought about the marvel of Dunkirk. On the train's coaches they had chalked the usual warnings to Hitler and one new symbol—an arrow pointing To Rome. Some of those going back went through the Dunkirk hell—and are raring to get back to France ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 672 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Bitter Fighting Continues The operations around the fortified area of Dunkirk are continuing with the same ..

... Bitter Fighting Continues The operations around the fortified area of Dunkirk are continuing with the same bitterness, according to to-day's French communique. On the Somme and on the Aisne. continues the communique. some local infantry actions by ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 61 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

USSOLINI

... THOMAS KENon leave after from Dunkirk, •- - the knock at the o f his home in Vernon t Belfast, and was teleM. from the gra War Office that he was missing. Kennedy said that he ; t i l ers made the last part golourney to Dunkirk in eels dustcart. ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

EVENING EXP An End, An Indication And A Beginning ONE more name has beaten itself into the minds of the

... the last, and will not be forgotten by the next. That name is Dunkirk. Most of all will it not be forgotten by those who have survived its bravery and its horrors. The evacuation of Dunkirk is ended, and the story of that marvellous achievement, as partly ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 368 | Page: 4 | Tags: none