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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

MIRACLE AT DUNKIRK

... MIRACLE AT DUNKIRK Thanksgiving at Holy Trinity Evensong at Holy Trinity yesterday was kept as a thanksgiving service for the miracle of Dunkirk. The Vicar (the Rev. G. W. Clitheroe), after referring to the national day of prayer observed on May 26, when ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 243 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LAST SEEN AT DUNKIRK

... LAST SEEN AT DUNKIRK Their father was last seen at Dunkirk, and they have heard nothing since. They dare not write to relatives or friends in France for fear of getting them into trouble, and all they long for is a chance to strike a blow for their country’s ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK SOLDIER WITH BAYONET

... DUNKIRK SOLDIER WITH BAYONET Charged With Injuring Wife A DUNKIRK soldier, bayonet in hand, stood at the door of his wife’s flat, where she was living with another man . The story was told at Brighton, to-day, when Harold John Healey, a 29-years-old ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 307 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FROM DUNKIRK WRECK

... FROM DUNKIRK WRECK Details of the rescue of nine French soldiers by a British fast motor boat, some time aftec the withdrawal of Allied troops from Dunkirk, have become known. Fo nine days these survivors had existed on board a wreck sunk in shallow water ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 198 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EVACUATION GOES 0

... DUNKIRK EVACUATION GOES War-time Court Contrasts Germans Claim Capture of Port DESPITE continual attacks from the air and by long range artillery, troops are still embarking from Dunkirk in large numbers, and in perfect order. German infantry attacks ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 878 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ALLIES’ LOSS OF SHIPS AT DUNKIRK

... SHIPS AT DUNKIRK THE Admiralty announce that the total British mercantile tonnage lost by enemy action in the week ending midnight, Sunday, June 2, was 78,715 tons, of which 24,000 tons was lost during the Dunkirk operations. Excluding Dunkirk, the figures ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 301 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK SURVIVOR KILLED JOHANNESBURG

... DUNKIRK SURVIVOR KILLED JOHANNESBURG. A soldier, who was a survivor of the evacuation of Dunkirk, and who had fought in the Norwegian campaign, was killed instantly when car driven by his fiancee (Miss G. H. Bok, of Pretoria), crashed 75 yards down a ...

Published: Monday 16 December 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 84 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

General Blanchard. It was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port in the ..

... General Blanchard. It was provisioned via Dunkirk. The British and the French Armies defended this port in the south and in the west, the Belgian Army in the north. UNCONDITIONAL CAPITULATION The Belgian Army has now suddenly and unconditionally capitulated ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 157 | Page: 8 | Tags: none