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SWAM OUT TO SHIP, BOMBED

... that her husband. Private Thomas Rutherford, is reported missing after assisting in the defence of Calais during the Flanders evacuation. Private Thomas Rutherford, who is 35, is esperienced soldier, having served for seven years as a regular soldier, five ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 307 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... impressions of the homecoming of the British Expeditionary Force from their grim battle in Northern France and Flanders proof this evacuation is of the spirit of British soldiers and British sailors. An Army Corps commander said to me soon after he stepped ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 385 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Fought In Flanders

... Fought In Flanders corners and a patrol came down the street. Along chai-ged the unexpected Bren carrier, spinting fire right and left, bowling over a score enemy and emerging beyond the village without receiving a shot. But its crew’s adventures weren’t ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 400 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOST EQUIPMENT

... be paid for other articles of kit and clothing lost. Paris Buses Aided In Flanders Trek Buses which helped refugees to escape from the war shattered towns and villages of Flanders are back on the streets of Paris—some of them still daubed wdith cuude camouflage ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 188 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Killed In*Action

... John Liddle. who was reported missinß in Norway on April ‘2B. Is now in a Nazi prison camp. Wounded in Flanders Wounded in the evacuation from Flanders. Corporal Ernest Wylie, whose home address is at la. Exeter Street. Gateshead. has arrived safely in ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 206 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PREMIER'S REVIEW

... acceptable or unpalatable, remains unsullied, and Mr. Churchill minimised nothing. He did not call evacuation a victory, and plainly said that evacuation will not win wars. Equally, he showed that no other alternative was open to the Allied forces after ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 231 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PREMIER’S SURVEY AND WARNING TN a stirring speech, the Prime Minister, on Tuesday in the House of Commons, ..

... on Tuesday in the House of Commons, surveyed the military position, notably the evacuation of the greater part of the B.E.F. and a large number of French troops from Flanders. No fewer than 335,000 were brought to this country from Dunkirk, despite concentrated ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 147 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Fighf With Prisoner

... Colllngwood Street, Felling, lately back from Flanders, Is able to tell his relatives and friends is one of liow he got hand wounded drafted France immediately. His wife, who gave their house up when she was evacuated, is living with her sisterin-law in Chepstow ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Grand Cross Award

... Cross Award Last week he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour for gallant work in connection with the evacuation of Flanders. Now 60. he was until a year ago Commander-in-Chief of the French Mediterranean Fleet, and w'hen war broke out was ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 152 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Winlaton Man Missing

... 15. Cromwell Avenue, Wlnlaton, Blaydon, that her son. Private Richard Rogerson, was missing when his regiment was evacuated from Flanders. He was 28 years of age and spent seven years abroad with richard rogersox the Army. Husband In Hospital A long spell ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 139 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALLIES FIGHT WITH CLOSE UNITY

... was no sign of the third. Steadiness Unequalled It was emphasised in London to-day that the withdrawal of the forces from Flanders a combined Allied operation, during which the British and French are working in the closest unity with a steadiness never ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 166 | Page: 6 | Tags: none