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An Appeal for Pipes and amms

... Appeal for Pipes and amms As will be seen from advt. in front page, an appeal for pines and drums, to replace those lost at Dunkirk, by the 6th tiordon Highlanders, has been by Sir George Abercromby, Bait.. convener, of the County of Banff Subscriptions ...

DUFFTOWN FEUARS

... been opened to raise money for the purpose of supplying Pipes and Drums, to replace those lost by the 6th Gordon Hrs. at Dunkirk. Subscriptions received by George S. Spence. Provost Dufftown. ITORTAGAGES available at 4i per cent, LVI also 2nd Mortgages ...

AUXILIARY AIR FORCE TOPS DOUBLE CENTURY

... regular air force in every phase of the air \var—iii h ime defence, in offensive patrols over the Low Countries, above the Dunkirk beaches, and more recently in the big air battles over the English Channel. One Auxiliary squadron, equipped with Hurricane ...

Certain of Victory

... at least as important a part, and at times, as in the brilliant evacuations from the coast of France, from Rotterdam and Dunkirk right down to St. Jean de Luz, they add the glory of action under fire to the silent service of continuous patrol round our ...

CONFIDENT ARMY. Second Year Very Different. By the Rt. Fran. Anthony Eden, M.P., Secretary of State for War

... spite the defection of King Leopold and the ticrinan break through on the other flank !It Sedan, it fought its way back to Dunkirk and five-sixths of it reached home. \ii outstanding exploit was the holding of ~a lais citadel for over a week by an imprpvised ...

Royal National Lifeboat Institution

... setvice 1249 times, 2428 lives have been rescued and 111 vessels saved. Nineteen Life boats took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, one being lost and all the others damaged. Other incidents arising ow.; of the War have further contributed to increase our ...

A DAY OF PRAYER

... dark moment iu Britain's long history. Hitler's forces swept on. Britain's army had its back to the sea—and the Miracle of Dunkirk had not yet been enacted. France was soon to totter and fall. Few could tell that this would only strengthen Britain's resolve ...

Cannot be Too Many

... ships ut the Beet, as welt as tor coastal patrols and convoy work with tietts of merchantmen. their work at Boulogne and Dunkirk is known oil over the world; but who, at the begiuning ut this war, would have thought ut ocean-going destroyers welt beyond ...

A NATION IN ARMS

... history has there been assembled on our shores a force comparable with that made up of the nine re-organised divisions from Dunkirk, supported by the battalions of the Home Army and the battalions in training, the Dominion troops and the continental soldiers ...

A YEAR OF WAR

... setbacks culminating in the major disaster of the French collapse marked the nadir of British fortunes. The marvel of the Dunkirk evacuation raised the spirits of our people. The valour of our airmen against mass attacks of enemy aircraft which were intended ...

MR and MRS M'INTOSH. NOTES ON THE WAR. (By W. J. Grant, author of the Spirit of India.)

... through gigantic trials and immense sacrifices. Every day we hear of additions to the long melancholy list of war casualties. Dunkirk and he events associated with the Belgian and French surrenders were, in their own svay, the heaviest burdens. which human ...