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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

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

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

MILITARY FEAT WITHOUT PRECEDENT

... Paris state that the evacuation was without precedent in military history. Even up to three days ago it was thought that it would not be possible to evacuate more than 100,000 men. German headquarters, in a survey of the Flanders fighting, give their ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 289 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMANS BOMB REFUGEE TRAINS

... Luxembourg in everincreasing numbers, in all sorts of vehicles. It is understood that there is no question so far of an official evacuation of Brussels. priest, who heartens his parishioners as they go. COUNTRYSIDE HOMES FOR REFUGEES The capital is calm in rpite ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 324 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITAIN MUST BE THERE

... British divisions at lightning speed. There is no secret that the B.E.F. lost practically the whole of its equipment in the evacuation from Dunkirk, and that the seasoned troops who were rescued from that magnificent retreat cannot be reformed and re-equipped ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 248 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Enemy Tests of Somme Defences

... it has been suggested, may precede the next phase of the war, accompanied news that: Allied troops continue to be evacuated from Flanders, with shiploads reaching Britain. R.A.F. machines covering these operations destroyed or seriously damaged 56 enemy ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 206 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WARWICKS’ GALLANTRY

... TELEGRAPH CHIEF REPORTER fl/TORE glowing stories of the part played by the Royal WarwicklYA shire Regiment in the Battle of Flanders are now coming to light. A battalion, which includes many men from the Coventry district, covered itself with glory in the ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 417 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

News in Brief

... to full production. Captain Arthur Peter Godman, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, whose death in action in Flanders, is announced to-day, was the only son of Air Commodore A. L. Godman. commandant of the Northern Area of the Observer Corps ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 231 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

frontier indicate the gigantic scale of the battle raging in Northern France. The greater part of the German ..

... operation Fighting in the north is increasing in violence, said the official French military commentator to-day. In the battle of Flanders the Germans were throwing enormous human and material forces into the fight, regardless of losses, and were trying to overwhelm ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 294 | Page: 1 | Tags: none