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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

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

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

Souvenirs of Dunkirk

... Souvenirs of Dunkirk Souvenirs of the withdrawal from Dunkirk take many forms, and perhaps the best exist only in the minds of those who saw incidents, sublime or humorous, that will remain as memories throughout life. Of the more tangible souvenirs, ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 245 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Dunkirk Miracle

... The Dunkirk Miracle The Epic of Dunkirk. By E. Keble Chatterton. (Hurst and Blackett. 10s. 6d.) Return via Dunkirk. By “Gun Buster.” (Hodder. 55.) The full history of what the Navy and the Merchant Service did at Dunkirk has not been (written, perhaps ...

Published: Tuesday 10 December 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 274 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OF DUNKIRK FIGHTING

... men whose self-sacrifice has turned disaster into triumph. CLALM TO HAVE ENTERED DUNKIRK BEBErN, Tuesday. To-day’s official German communique says:— “The fighting for Dunkirk is nearing its end. Our troops penetrated into the and took the Louis fort from ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 821 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Record

... Dunkirk Record Mr. Attlee said that a record was being kept of all those regularly assisting in the evacuation at Dunkirk. It was not possible to keep a complete record of the many who gallantly gave their services. He would bear in mind the high praise ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 52 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK FIGHTING

... DUNKIRK FIGHTING HOW ALL IKS ARK HOLDING OUT NAZI ATTACKS BY SKA AND AIR ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 14 | Page: 4 | Tags: none