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... DUNKIRK Ninetcen life-boats of the Institution formed part of the ‘‘fantastic armada of little boats which evacuated the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. These life-boats brought off from the beaches thousands of men. All the life-boats were damaged. One was lost ...
... from Dunkirk. As intimated by the Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons on Tuesday, a total of 330,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force and of the French and Belgian Armies, had been evacuated to England through Dunkirk, a ...
... food and ammunition through Amiens were also severed as the Germans swept up the coast to Boulogne and Calais and almost to Dunkirk. Behind the armoured onslaught came German divisions in lorries and behind them came the dull, brute mass of the ordinary ...
... there were three groups, the Belgian Army, the B.E.F. and some French divisions. These three armies were provisioned through Dunkirk, and the defence of this port in the South and West was being undertaken by the British and French forces, while the Belgian ...
... charged and run down a party of the enemy. ¢ At dusk, 10,000 weary British troorgn. obeying their orders, withdrew towards Dunkirk. ...
... laid from France via the Channel Islands. ) Meanwhile, the Expeditiona Force was being evacuated under fnu- diz::ultiu from Dunkirk, and the loss of Boulogne and Calais and of our communications on this route to Belgium threw a tremendous load on the 5. ...
... self-righting lifeboat of a new design, which had just been completed at the end of May. She went from the Luilding vard to Dunkirk, where she was one of the 19 lifeboats of the Institution which helped to take off from the beaches thousands of men of the ...
... at Dunkirk, The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has told the Ministry of Shipping that it docs ot wish the Government to pay any of the cost to the Institution of sending 19 of iis lifeboats to help in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. These ...
... intimated this week that several of them are now reported missing. Following the evacuation of the forces In Flanders through Dunkirk letters and postcards had been received from a number of these lads saying they were safe and well, and still with the BEF’ ...
... Qur London Letter. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, Joxe 14, 1940 The Dunkirk Evacuation, The Prime Minister was asked by My Ellis Smith in the House of Commons this week whether he would consider awarding a epecial British medal to all men and women ...
... became more and more imposing, and before long hundreds of barges and other war equipment were assembled at Antwerp, (!}!:his. Dunkirk, Ostend, Nieuport, and & vre. ...
... which they are engaged. stated not ouly to be covering up the with. drawal effectively but to be counter-attacking the enemy, Dunkirk, it was announced, was still strongly held by French marines, and the Allied air forces were delivering strong attacks on ...