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MESSAGE FROM DUNKIRK

... MESSAGE FROM DUNKIRK. A bottle thrown into the sea from the beaches at Dunkirk in May has just been washed ashore on the Isle of Man. It contained the names and addresses of some of the men waiting to be brought off by the famous rescue fleet of small ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

'BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY

... trawlers, was given leave just before the Dunkirk evacuation. He got into civilian clothe, borrowed a civilian identification card and enlisted for service on a small motor-boas. He made three trips to Dunkirk before rejoining his trawler. ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PAYMENT REFUSED. NEWS FOR KNITTERS. A Dorset firm of motor-boat builders There will be fewer colours and fewer ..

... winter hut the Wool lifeboat when she returned damaged after Controller's slogan is: No shortage. if taking part in the Dunkirk evacuation. no wastaw Navy blue, medium green They have done the work and now refuse and golden nigger are among the colours ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NAVAL OFFICER MISSING

... have been 27 this month, went to sea at the age of 15. Two of his three brothers, who an- all in the Army, came through the Dunkirk evacuation safely. He was expected home on leave at the end of the month. The official telegram says he is 3lissing, feared ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

**** it •• .. Rome Ilote6 8 MONTROSE STANDARD AND ANGUS AND MEARNS REGISTER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940. THE ARMY OF

... lawn remade during the past few months. It has learnt the lessons of recant experience and is ready to app . ,. them. Before Dunkirk the British Army well trained and well equipped. Talk about the troops under Lord Gort, though they were a scratch lot assembled ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

King Leopold—The Truth Stern Refusal to Assist Invaders Cheers Belgium By A Belgian Correspondent. NEWS from ..

... workmen go into the fields at night and sever military cables, or continue to hide British soldiers who failed to escape from Dunkirk or airmen who have had to come down by parachute on their way back from bombing Germany. Why, ask the Nazis, do they not cooperate ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Business Club Annual Meeting A limited number of luncheon meetings, in addition to those in the evening, will ..

... were now in the armed Forces, in various parts of the country; some of them had played their part in the withdrawal from Dunkirk ; and one was a prisoner of war. In the activities of the Club during the past year. one thing deserved mention more than ...

Published: Friday 15 November 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 553 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AMATEUR ACTOR

... producer to Montrose Operatic Society, is a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, and has just arrived home from active service via Dunkirk. ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Yell of the Black Watch

... failed to grasp w•as a great part of the B.E.F. Had their attacks succeeded, the road to the coast would have been cut and Dunkirk would have hero impossible. German advance westward from Comities on the southern flank, where part of the Oxfordshire and ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 570 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONFIDENT ARMY

... spite of the defection of King Leopold and the German break through on the other flank at sedan, it fought its way back to Dunkirk and five-sixths of it reached home. An outstanding exploit was the holding of Calais citadel for over a week by an improvised ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 4 | Tags: none