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DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK Official notification has been received Councillor R. B. Colbourne, of Warwick, that his son, Capt. Jack Herbert Colbourne, R.E.. was killed during the evacuation of the troops from Dunkirk, Capt. Colbourne was engineer by profession. In September ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK The excellent work accomplished by the Salvation Army in this direction is indicated by the fact that at Dunkirk their canteens gave away 80,000 cups of tea and coffee, in addition to thousands of pies, cakes, and sandwiches, in four days. ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

In the Dunkirk Area

... the Dunkirk Area The Trench military spokesman announced to-day that in the Dunkirk area the embarkation troops was still being actively carried out at normal speed despite new difficulties. During the past twenty-four hours the enemy has brought up heavy ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 287 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK BEAKER

... DUNKIRK BEAKER A silver gilt beaker bearing the arms of the Goldsmiths’ Company and presented by them on condition the buyer hands the beaker to the Admiralty for the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, as a memorial to the Navy’s exploits at Dunkirk ...

Published: Tuesday 16 July 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 180 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK ECHO

... DUNKIRK ECHO Capt. J. G. Bickford was awarded the D.S.O. last month for good services in the withdrawal from the Dunkirk beaches. On 22 December last year, for successful actions against enemy submarines while in command of H.M.S. Express, Capt. Bickford ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 57 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK

... THE MIRACLE DUNKIRK Holy Trinity Church. Coventry, Evcn- Bono was kept aa a special act of thaiiksoiviny for the evacuation of the men of the fiJvC. The Viear (the Tov. (I. W. Clitheroe), preaching from the Psalm, referred the National Day Intercession ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 271 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

In Dunkirk Harbour

... In Dunkirk Harbour The initiative and enterprise by which hundreds of thousands of men were taken from the open beaches near Dunkirk in every conceivable kind of small craft has appealed to public imagination. That astonishing side of the great evacuation ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK SOLDIER

... DUNKIRK SOLDIER ACCUSED OF WIFE’S ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 5 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK

... WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK Mrs. Jones told a Midland Daily Telegraph representative that her husband, who is 33, served 12 years in the Navy and was recalled from the Reserve when the war began. One of his brothers is a bandsman and has been serving in India ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 270 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Significance of Dunkirk

... Significance of Dunkirk Stressing the significance of Dunkirk. General Smuts said; “If the German army and air force together could not succeed in a supreme effort in their attack at a single point like Dunkirk, how can they fairly hope to succeed in ...

Published: Monday 22 July 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 54 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Next to “Dunkirk”

... Next to “Dunkirk” It was the heaviest British loss sustained in any one week during the war, apart from the losses for the week ended 23 June, when the total was 209.984 tons, but these included the loss of ships during the evacuation from Dunkirk. The average ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 161 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AFTER DUNKIRK

... AFTER DUNKIRK The achievement the 8.8. F. fighting it* way back. 10 Ihmkirk and the heroism of all who assisted in its evacuation have not only added a glorious chapter to our history, writes the Bishop in the Coventry Diocesan Cazettu, they have struck ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 175 | Page: 1 | Tags: none