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MASON NOTIONS A ROYAL RECEPTION The war was brought very close to on. Sunday, when trainloads of children, ..

... there was a moving incident on Tuesday, when a Folkestone soldier. evqeuated from the Flanders battlep_eldt, was re-united with his three little who had been evacuated to Nelson. The father had reached home at Folkestone a few hours after his children left ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1015 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THUMBS UP t—Mot Of the B.E.F

... THUMBS t—Mot Of the B.E.F. King Honours Lord Gort on Return From Flanders Lord Gort (Coimuander-ln-Chlef the British Expeditionary Force) returneo to England on Saturday and was invested by the King the same day with the Insignia of the Knight Grand Cross ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE NEW OFFENSIVE . The new enemy offensive which began dawn yesterday on front extending from the coast to point

... the sea we shall be able to reinforce it tremendously indeed have not already done so. Eventually the whole force evacuated from Flanders will find their way back into the new fighting line which in many of its sectors is identical with that firmly held ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 382 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AFTER HISTORIC REARGUARD ACTION

... 1,000,000 Germans, members of the British Expeditionary Force sailed from Dunkirk last night in a blaze of glory, leaving Flanders fields to flood and fire. Allied warships accomplished prodigious feats, sending shells from their big guns into the Nazi ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 233 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HEATH SOLDIER HONOURED

... HEATH SOLDIER HONOURED Home on. leave, after taking part in Ithe evacuation from Flanders, Pte. Wm. lAlfred Edwards. husband of Mrs. C. Edwards. Maria Street. Neath, and son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Edwards. .Aberavon. was presented with a ring by the ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 137 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Cefn Coed R.A.F. Pilot

... in Flanders. Some are due home on leave, but have Morris, not yet arrived. Pte. Randall orris, son of Mr. and Mre. William Morris, Pontycapel-road, Cefn Coed, was home for a few days' leave over the week-end : he was concerned in the evacuation from ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 214 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HEATH SOLDIER HONOURED

... HEATH SOLDIER HONOURED Horne on leave, after taking part in the evacuation from Flanders, Pte. Wm. Alfred Edwards. husband of Mrs. C. Edwards. Maria Street, Neath, and son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Edwards. Aberavon. was presented with a ring by the ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Line Up With the Nazis

... Most of the people opened their homes to the men for Sunday dinner and tea. From almost all the cent re* where soldiers from Flanders ami France spent Sunday come reports indicating how insistent the men were having a church parade on Sunday morning, even ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Efficacy of Prayer

... Efficacy of Prayer Sir, —As the news of the successful evacuation our troops from Flanders became known to us it appeared clear that as a nation w-e have again had an answer to the prayers which we collectively offered recently on the command of our King ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 176 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WESTERN MAIL & SOUTH WALES NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1940. 200,000 Men “Walked Plank” to Safety A small hand of

... room,’’ at naval base the South-east Coast of Kngiand, helped to direct the evacuation which saved more than 335,000 officers and men of the Allied Forces beleaguered ill Flanders. The full story of their part and of the brilliant naval operations which ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 190 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Britain

... peace salion from Flanders, glorious was not victory, but a ■ glorious episode, and it was uty of all to make a maxifor final victory, andant expressed his thanks rv. helming kindness shown by this country to the French had been evacuated from claimed for ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 233 | Page: 3 | Tags: none