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Down Attackers TREK TO DUNKIRK

... Down Attackers TREK TO DUNKIRK By G. Ley Smith ARTIES don’t always have the opportunity of excursions into No-Man’s Land. They are busy men, but they do have their share of thrills when the artillery get the range, or the bombers come over. There is one ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1953 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Gordons Marksmen Mow

... DY this time. Leopold had capitulated. The great drama of Dunkirk had started. As the whole world watched in amazement and admiration the miracle that was taking place on the beaches at Dunkirk the soldiers still fighting heroically to hold back the German ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 659 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COMMUNIO CUP BACf TO ITS HOI

... still remembered by some of parishioners. . A soldier in the London Scotty ment found the cup in a seame. serted mission at Dunkirk d ur evacuation. On reading the the soldier brought the cup home again, asked Mr G. superintendent of the Royal ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Here begins the story of another battalion of the Gordon Highlanders in the Blitzkrieg of Spring, 1940. It ..

... Banffshire and the North-east of Scotland played a heroic part in the defence of Brussels and the retreat from the Dyle to Dunkirk. This chapter tells how, on arrival at the Franco-Belgian frontier during the great freeze-up of January last, the battalion ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 82 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WOUNDED

... WOUNDED Dvr. George Tocher (23), R.A S.C., who took part in the withdrawal from Dunkirk and was severely wounded, is married and has one child. His wife resides at 11 Rosebank Place, Aberdeen. He is the second son of Mr and Mrs A. Tocher. 65 Cloverfield ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WOUNDED

... Previously he was on the office staff of the Aberdeen Lime Company. He was at Narvik and also assisted in the evacuation from Dunkirk. He is a former pupil of Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen. ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PRISONERS OF WAR

... PRISONERS OF WAR . After the Dunkirk evacuation th ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STAFFS

... He has seen much service abroad. He had been in France since the beginning of the present war until the evacuation from Dunkirk. He held the post for a time of Acting Deputy Chaplain-General to the B.E.F. ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

lands Chemical Works. His brother, who is also in the Royal Corps of Signals, and two brothers-in-law in the Royal

... His brother, who is also in the Royal Corps of Signals, and two brothers-in-law in the Royal Artillery, came through the Dunkirk evacuation. Pte. Thomas J. M'Beath. R.A.M.C., is the only son of Mr and Mrs M'Beath, 203 Victoria Road, Aberdeen. Before the ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOST AT SEA

... LOST AT SEA Pte. Norman D. Young (25), R.A.0.C., was posted missing after the evacuation from Dunkirk, and word has since been received from official sources that his body was recovered from the sea and buried in France. A native of Fochabers. Pte. Young ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

for War Prisoners

... eational requisites, and thousands of books to the men of the Northt ast while on active service Their heroic struggles at Dunkirk, Narvik and elsewhere have made it possible for us to face the Battle of Britain with confidence. But for their heroism and ...

Published: Thursday 22 August 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FORMER FARM SERVANT AWARDED M.M

... Brigadier) C. M. Usher, who was awarded the D.S.O. for a brilliant piece of defence work in connection with the evacuation of Dunkirk. Pte. Carle’s home is at Middle Hythie, Mintlaw. He was seven years in the Regulars and his time was up .n February of last ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 3 | Tags: none