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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

STRATFORD MEN IN THE HEROIC FIGHT IN FLANDERS

... STRATFORD MEN IN THE HEROIC FIGHT IN FLANDERS Many men from Stratford-on-Avon and district were with the B.E.F. in Flanders, participating in the heroic rearguard action and in the astonishingly successful evacuation from Dunkirk. 4 ~ News has been anxiously ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 724 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

I ANDERS EVACUATION GOES ON

... I ANDERS EVACUATION GOES ON if. BOYS WtING y the Allies’ f 6 rearguard action L?oicj; eris of thousands of an d French, too, into England tofrom one of the >a ; tlefields in the k 7. er cover of darki>oUe » r 5 on brilliant s to-day the proces- We transports ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1210 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HAVE BEEN EVACUATED ALLIES DETERMINED TO FIGHT

... CRAFT OF ALL KINDS WENT TO AND FRO ACROSS THE CHANNEL. According to a French estimate more than 100,000 men have been evacuated from Flanders, while other unofficial reports suggest that the majority of the B.E.F. have now been taken off. On the other hand ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 583 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ONE PENNY NKIRK EVACUATION GOES ON

... soldiers evacuated from Flanders reached British ports today, and shared a single hope. That was to get back to the battle zone and “have another go” at the Germans. Men landing at a South-East Coast port, to-day, said that the B.E.F. evacuation was approaching ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1189 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

B.E.F. in the Warwicks give three cheers on arriving at Pool Meadow for in the epic battle of Flanders. They ..

... B.E.F. in the Warwicks give three cheers arriving at Pool Meadow for in the epic battle of Flanders. They were brought to Coventry from a ’buses chartered by “The Midland Daily Telegraph Parcels Fund. Mr. Cocks, M.P., —Wants to Know ]V|R. F. S. COCKS ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Allies’ Desperate Drive to The Coast

... they have gained a footing on the first of the Flanders Hills Mount Cassel Forty divisions more than 1.000,000 men—and almost the whole of her armoured divisions, have been flung by Germany into the Flanders battle. There is no confirmation of a German ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Mercury June WINGS OVER THE NAVY-Pages 4 and i ir“ £ I: 9 AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT APPEARS PAGE SIX

... the evacuation of the greater part of BJEF from the German trap in Flanders is due arrived in London yesterday having on the Government’s orders handed over to less senior officer the command of the remainder of the British forces not yet evacuated A dramatic ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1348 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... Dunkirk Radio: Pag Admiral Abrial, who is in command of the French Naval Forces which have been assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders, has been awarded the Tjrand Cross of the Legion of Honour. 3 ONE PENNY. lMaa ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BEFRIENDED DOGS

... the animals they rescued in France and Flanders, has given rise to a new need on the part of the U.S.P.C.A. in Birmingham. Quarantine kennels are being established in the city, in order that some of the evacuated dogs may be cared for till their soldier ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 268 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GERMAN EXPLANATION

... GERMAN EXPLANATION OF B.E.F. ESCAPE EVACUATION FACILITATED BY DENSE FOG COVER FOR “HEADLONG FLIGHT Berlin, May 31 Weather conditions over the Channel are hampering the operations of German aircraft against the evacuation of the 8.E.F., according to the official ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 373 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE BIRMINGHAM MAIL, DUNKIRK DEFENDERS MEN STILL EMBARKING FROM BEACHES

... THE AL LI ED NAVI ES AND Al R FORCES, THE WORK OF EMBARKING THE HEROIC DEFENDERS WHO HAVE COVERED THE EVACUATION OF THE NORTHERN ARMIES FROM FLANDERS IS GOING STEADILY FORWARD IN SPITE OF AERIAL BOMBING AND BOMBARDMENT BY GERMAN LONG-RANGE GUNS. THE TROOPS ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 504 | Page: 4 | Tags: none