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DUNKIRK SUNDAY

... DUNKIRK SUNDAY Services on Merseyside Sunday was set apart in the Archdiocese of Liverpool as the day on which thanksgiving should be made for the miracle of Dunkirk, and also the heroic dead should be remembered with prayers and Masses. At St. Patrick's ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EXPLOIT

... DUNKIRK EXPLOIT --\ ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Captured Near Dunkirk

... Captured Near Dunkirk Terence TanseY, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tansey, of 69 Ireland Street, Widnes, reported in June as missing between the 21st and 30th May, is now known to be a prisoner of war. He is 21 years of age, is an old boy of St. Bede's ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 68 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

(Continuod from proviom column)

... troops, the skill of their leaders and the dogged I bravery and endurance of the seamen , who brought the armies from the Dunkirk beaches across the Straits were alike admirable. But the main feature of this astonishing operation was the triumph of our ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 340 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

run until the Belgian king capitulated and put both the French and the British lines in danger. It was while

... French and the British lines in danger. It was while Ins regiment was taking part in that heroic rearguard action back to the Dunkirk beaches that Private Jack Dennett, along with others was captured. He was being escorted by two German soldiers to a nearby ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 167 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

(Continued from previous column) outbreak of hostilities when he enjoyed a short stay at home late in April. ..

... and Mrs. William H. Potts, of Liverpool. He has been missing since May 20th, which was his twenty-ninth birthday. ON WAY TO DUNKIRK Speke Soldier Missing Fusilier J. Boden, of 57 Bray Road, Speke, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, is missing. A Reservist, celled ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 190 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MAYOR'S WAR FUND Nineteenth List of Subscriptions

... The lifeboat, by the way, has already been in action, taking part in the evacuation from Dunkirk. When the appeal went out for all available boats to go to Dunkirk the lifeboat, which has not yet been given a name, was still at an East Coast building yard ...

Published: Friday 05 July 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 196 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Brilliant Exploit against Germans

... has been awarded the Military Medal for his bravery when facing the Germans at Nienport, Belgium, during the retreat to Dunkirk prior to the great evacuation. During this engagement he was wounded in the neck while inflicting heavy casualties on the ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 265 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Another Critic

... .1 Local Lad also criticises the letter and suggests that the writer should have remembered those comrades who fell at Dunkirk in the Battle of France before writing about his pleasures; also die men and women being ground down by the colossus, the ...

Published: Friday 09 August 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 49 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Private William Shaw

... Private William Shaw Pte. Wm. Shaw was also a reservist at the outbreak of the war and was also among the troops evacuated from Dunkirk, where he was in the water for tire hours awaiting a boat. At the ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 39 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Driver James Davies

... belvoir Road, Widnes, joined H.M. Forces in October, 1939. He was drafted to the 8.E.F., but was successfully evacuated from Dunkirk. A native of Widnes, he was educated at the Widnes C.E. School and later at West Bank School before being employed by the ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BOYS ON SERVICE

... Story George E. Cregreen, who was A thrilling story of the evacuation employed by the Weekly News, and of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk is told by who volunteered for the newly-formed Artificer Gordon Oliver of Run corn who Home Defence Battal ion recently, ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: 3 | Tags: none