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Sidelight on Dunkirk

... Sidelight on Dunkirk An interesting sidelight on the extent of the demands Red Cross funds is the revelation that during the few days of the Dunkirk evacuation the Red Crass spent no less than 1,30,000 to meet the immediate needs of sick and wounded members ...

A NM, Om Safe

... Lencastrian ths British which slink at Dunkirk, is sale in again. Private Dom was serving in the Ares sued Sutherland Highlanders as a dispatch rider and peeled 21s1 kink. day is France prior to the Which the mum from Dunkirk. More than i doo,ooo persons are ...

ARMY CHAPLAINS

... France in the present war be had many adventures before being evacuated from Dunkirk. Mr. Siddons said he could not praise too highly the courage of the B.E.F. on the sands of Dunkirk. Although thousands of men waiting to embark were bombed and machine-gunned ...

* * * * SOLDIER CRANED

... and he replied, no, he did not know where it was. The officer said Maher told him that when just returning to England from Dunkirk his regiment was at a North East town and when it was moved three weeks later he came away without permission. I told him ...

ROLL OF HONOUR

... Ronald Taylor Strong, of the R.A.O.C. attached to the Seaforth Highlanders is missing and was last seen in the vicinity of Dunkirk. He was 21 year of age and prev.ous to the war was a mechanic at Messrs. Youngs Motors, Chester-le-Street. Mr. and Mrs. M ...

Mr. J. J._ Lamas M.P., at liaoristem

... Lavers J.P., of Birtley banned the meeting. Mr. Lawson, referred in his speech to the recent withdrawal of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk and paid due tribute to the officers and men concerned. He appealed to the people of his division to remain calm under the ...

MAN AMAIN MIRY SAVNIIIII

... • a • LIPSDIIAT DAY SU SATURDAY. Collectors are wanted for this excellent object. We do well to remember the htV given at Dunkirk. • a * * Tweaty lifeboats did excellent work in rest:Meg troops. Funds are urgently nemieeTo repair the dataages sustained ...

FEWER EYE CASUALTIES

... EYE CASUALTIES. According to reports which came to hand soon after the arrival in England of the bulk of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, the numbers of soldiers suffering from serious eye injuries is comparatively small. Famous St. Dunstan's, founded in 1915 ...

ROLL OF HONOUR

... South View, Chester-le- Street. has regrind official war office news that her Private Normal' Haseroft. was killed kaction at Dunkirk oti May 21st. He was 26 years of age sad had Imo in sine* Ho joiord the Territorials alma the middle of lad year. H. ooa child ...

* * * * PALOS POSTINGS§

... said she was collecting donations or wool on behalf of Binley Parish Church to provide comforts for soldiers returned from Dunkirk. She believed her story and gave her sixpence. Mrs. Annie Paterson, of Eighton Banks, said defendant called at her house at ...

Tan TO FORM

... that the steamboat which takes you from Kew to Hampton Court may proudly hear the notice. This vessel evacuated troops from Dunkirk. When a host I was in the other day passed the Princess Freda lying quietly at her moorings the passengers Fad such a notice ...

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 ...