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EXPLOITS OF BLACK WATCH IN FLANDERS

... EXPLOITS OF BLACK WATCH IN FLANDERS Col. Shouted At Enemy Tank I'm British —and Tank Turned T ail Here is a story of the coolness, courage, and imperturbability of British soldiers that thrills the heart. What a picture is conjured up by J. L. Hodsons ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1313 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GRENADIER GUARDS IN FLANDERS

... Armies into Flanders in defence of Belgium and Holland May 11. They took over part of the River Dyle line at Louvain, and first met the enemy attempting to pursue his usual tactics of infiltration on May 14. Then began the major tragedy of Flanders —the flooding ...

Published: Tuesday 20 August 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1599 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HEROIC WITHDRAWAL IN FLANDERS

... HEROIC WITHDRAWAL IN FLANDERS (By AUBREY HAMMOND.) • Southern Command, Saturday. WHEN I was the guest of a battalion of the Coldstream Guards to-day I learned details never yet published of its experience in Flanders in those critical days last spring ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 892 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The first picture showing how the B.E.F. are being evacuated from the coast of Flanders.—The small boats which ..

... The first picture showing how the B.E.F. are being evacuated from the coast of Flanders.—The small boats which brought the men from the shores and sandy beaches in and around Dunkirk to the safety of British warships and transports. (Picture by British ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 46 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAVY'S HEROISM IN EVACUATION

... NAVY'S HEROISM IN EVACUATION BY NORMAN RILEY On the South-east Coast. Thursday night. BRITISH and French troops landing at ports along this coast to-night told an epic story of the B.E.F. evacuation of a Flanders port. During yesterday and last night ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MIRACLE SAVED THEM FROM INFERNO OF FLANDERS

... MIRACLE SAVED THEM FROM INFERNO OF FLANDERS Vivid Glimpses of the Greatest Rearguard Action in History By J. L. HODSON SELDOM have I been so moved as to-day when I met men ot the B.E.F. back from the inferno in Flanders, some of them back with smiling faces ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2086 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EVACUATION BOMBS B.E.F. MEN ARRIVING IN THOUSANDS

... EVACUATION BOMBS B.E.F. MEN ARRIVING IN THOUSANDS (From a Special Correspondent.) At a South-East Port, Friday. S HORTLY after dawn to-day I watched a number of steamers come sweeping into harbour, their decks laden with Allied troops from Flanders. British ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 364 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EVACUATION GRIM STORIES TOLD BY MEN OF B.E.F

... EVACUATION GRIM STORIES TOLD BY MEN OF B.E.F. MORE British and French soldiers evacuated from Flanders reached British ports to-dad• and shared a single hope—that was to get back to the battle zone'and have anothr go at the Germans. They are fighting ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 435 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE LONDON LETTERj Higher Farm Prices in J ll '* ' Buchan Burghs & Evacu# Kemsley House, W.C.I, Sunday night

... THE LONDON LETTERj Higher Farm Prices in J ll '* ' Buchan Burghs & Evacu# Kemsley House, W.C.I, Sunday night. BROADLY speaking, there are now three main courses open to Hitler, as they appear to expert London opinion this week-end. He may decide to hurl ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1319 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BOMBS AMONG E-BOATS DAYLIGHT ATTACK ON CHERBOURG

... with the parents leaflets giving full information about the evacuation scheme. Mr MacDonald said that from' evacuation areas in the London region 563.000 children had already been evacuated, but 279.000 remained. The Flying Bedstead There was an Arabian ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 344 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Britain Becomes a Fortress

... extrication of even a part of our hard-driven armies from the Flanders trap was more than some dared to hope for. It has called for skill, daring, and rapid organisation. That the evacuation of the B.E.F. will be accompanied or followed by heavy aerial ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Army's Thanks to War Workers

... Army's Thanks to War Workers The work done by the War Comforts Fund during and after the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders has brought a letter of thanks from Major-General G. P. Dawnay C.8.. C.M.G., D.5.0., M.V.0., Director-General of Voluntary ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 4 | Tags: none