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... Y AT DUNKIRK. “Both awards, I understand, have been made for gallant action during the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. “I have reason to believe that further awards are coming to the town.” The Provost was authorised by the Council to send the ...
... Campbeltown Coincidence At Dunkirk Remarkable Story Of The Evacuation A Campbeltown seaman who took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk was involved in a remarkable coincidence in the thick of the fighting. He was a member of the crew of the Gracie Fields ...
... “The New Contemptibies” Heroic Exploits Which Made Dunkirk Evacuaticn Possibie Something we all know of the epic story of the evacuation from Dunkirk. Much less do most of us realise the not less heroic exploits of the B.E.F. which made that epic possible ...
... after the Dunkirk evacuation. He had a remarkable story to tell, when interviewed by a representative of the “Courier”, but he made no reierence of his dash to the engine rooms. The Gracie Fields was among the first ships to be ordered to Dunkirk to evacuate ...
... bayonets, hurled themselves on advancing hordes of Germans and fought them to a standstill while other battalions marched into Dunkirk has been revealed. A company quartermaster, now lying in | a London hospital told how the Camerons lined the doorways and ...
... Maclean, a native of Campbeltown, who has been honoured for conspicuous bravery during the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. Captain Maclean, who was in command of H.M. Transport King George V, has been awarded the Bar to the D.S.C. His Chief Engineer ...
... was made, along with many others, for gallantry during the later days of tne B.E.¥. in France and the epic evacuation of Dunkirk. ~ Major Cockburn is a former adjutant of the Argylishire battalion of the Argyll and ?utherland Highlanders, and is well ...
... known to holidaymakers. To quote the typescript, “The Clyde flotilla has its owa peculiar place in the imperishable story of Dunkirk. Numerous trips were made across the Channel, and the ships’ lifeboats, seldom, if ever. used in peace-time, were put to some ...
... men who stood on the beaches of Dunkirk under a rain of bombs and swam to the ships which brought them back to Britain may soon be entitled to wear a medal, commemorating the great evacuation. It is probable that a “Dunkirk Medal”—on the lines of the “Mons ...
... own wly created French ) {Agve crossed the nan advance swept round the right and ' the North. this vast armoured st reached Dunkirk, S were the centres of ‘The Guards defended le and were then with- Dm this country, 8, the 60th Rifles and 5 Rifles, with ...
... Rothesay, who was in command of the Campbeltown Anti-tank Battery is a prisoner of war in Germany. He had been missing since the Dunkirk evacuation. Major Peacock, a master plumber in Rothesay, had been on the Reserve of Te:ritorial Officers, prior to the war ...
... the Ministry of Information to give more official details in Scotland about the heroic part played in the battles before Dunkirk by the 51st and 52nd Divisions, and also the contribution of Lewis to the war, were voiced in Parliament on Wednesday, In ...