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ONE SCOTTISH HERO

... ONE SCOTTISH HERO. This hero of Dunkirk lay bleeding alone, His bed the wet shingles, his pillow a stone. Thrice wounded, all breathless, life ebbing away, Ne still, in close grip, held his gun as he Lit'• My best friend they butchered in told . . blood ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

rG SUGGESTIONS. AFTERMATH

... company of four, would cross the English Channel under a hail of bombs, and return loaded with twenty British soldiers .from Dunkirk? Which of us who talked of Italy and Greece, remembering the ancient Roman and the ancient Greek, would have thought that ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... papers. Ile exprossf.s no opinions and states no facts. Ile says, the war is a tough job. He called the evacuation of Dunkirk a pretty piece of work. lie thinks the Air Forces are coming along nicely. Itis phrases make a sort of langnage of his ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 494 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE WAR EXTuND6,_

... press, broadcasting, and personal talks by returning soldiers to their friends, the people know all about the miracle of Dunkirk and what led up to it. It is one of the strangest incidents in world history that a king, fighting. at the head of his army ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR. SENSIBLE'S COLUMN

... round the kitchen range and sat quiet for a few minutes, listening. Then wee Sandy brightened up. When you think about Dunkirk you don't mind waiting till next year for the summer holiday, Dad. That's right enough, said Mother. Back at the works ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

* * *

... year this ' change over happened, then we are not so sure of the mere chance theory. What about miracelous intervention? Dunkirk ! 'What happened there? A direful calamity was prevented, and over 300,000 of our soldteis, hard pressed by the enemy, were ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1319 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HITLER AND NAPOLEON

... to be critical one with another because our business instincts are sharp; but our military balances are increasing. After Dunkirk we had to be cautious; but Dunktrk was a portent. We Faye not put a foot wrong since then. Our airmen showed superiority in ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 599 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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 ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 662 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BUSINESS

... to the second Winter of the war, and we hold up the German Army on tbg Continental coasts. Diller missed his big chance at Dunkirk. * * * OCTOBER GLORY. Autumn in her loveliness Wears no sign of pensiveness, Flaunting colour everywhere, Beauty sheds both ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 906 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SUPPORT this grand Institution .whifb trains and assists those blinded iqq the Greitt War, find which haS ..

... through Scottish chaplains and others. In a number of cases, Testaments were to replace some lost with other belongings at Dunkirk. Royal Navy chaplains found the lads in the Navy anxious to have copies, while Royal Air Force chaplains continually express ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1177 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MILNGAVIE PUBLIC SCHOOL

... over selfishness and fear is the stuff of which a victorious nation is made. On the high seas, in the fighter squadrons. at Dunkirk, Narvik, and in the Near East. thousands have been sustained and strengthened by a firm faith in God. As the Earl of Athlone ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1380 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THEY CO BACK AGAIN

... island, after all. is a limited battleground, and our men should know every inch of it. In failing immediately to follow up Dunkirk with an attack on our island, Hitler passed a possible opportunity. He has advertised his plan of campaign too thoroughly ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1592 | Page: 3 | Tags: none