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... Victorianism.” There was more than a modicum of truth in that observation. We looked back when we should have looked forward. Flanders Crisis There is no use denying any of these things. History will record them, and students in the future will look back with ...
... results of the evacuation scheme has been the discovery that large numbers of town children are being brought up with no religious knowledge at all. Taking one example, declared to be typical of many, a country parson asked a class of evacuated children, with ...
... details of military operations. It is also highly interesting that when first reporting Mr. Churchill’s speech on the evacuation of Flanders the Moscow' station even glossed over, or omitted, some of the losses of British equipment which he mentioned. is ...
... of R.S.F. His cousin. Sergeant T. Winter, who arrived home Spittal on leave, was able to add fuller details. Before being evacuated from Dunkirk Sergeant Winter was informed that Fusilier Gillie had been wounded. He immediately went to see him in a dressing ...
... ALLIED FORCES FROM FLANDERS CONTINUES TO PROVIDE ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING MILITARY FEATS OF THIS OR ANY OTHER WAR AS MORE AND MORE MEN REACH ENGLAND THEY TELL THE SAME STORY OF HEROISM AND STOICISM BY ALL CONCERNED IN THE EVACUATION Mere of lads one boy ...
... fighting hard in Boulogne the Germans have not yet reached Calais while British and French forces are gradually closing the Flanders “gap” which it was stated in one quarter had been reduced to 12 miles The Germans are suffering tremendous losses in their ...
... mixed force, in three waves rhat it looked most formidable Germans withdrew' from bayonets hurriedly here as elsewhere in Flanders. And Nieuport the aay before embarkation the Black Watch had taken a share in fighting from which, company commander noted; ...
... huge losses all the beaches in the Dunkirk area 'vh ' embarking the last heroic defenders have covered the evacuation of the * arm * rom Flanders is proceeding adJiy under the protection of the Allied . *es and air forces. ermans seem to have given up ...
... this country.” R.A.F. Screen Operations The Air Ministry announced to-day: “Royal Air Force fighters continue to screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the North-East Coast of France. “Further reports show that during yesterday 56 enemy aircraft were ...
... of all descriptions, B.E.F. T Humph Praised By The King MOVING message of admira- tion and sympathy for the heroes of the Flanders rearguard battle has been received from the King by Mr. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. I wish ...
... NAZIS STEEL TI7HILE their companions were being evacuated from Flanders certain sections the BEF were fighting a magnificent rearguard action to cover the withdrawal Vivid stories of the great battle in Flanders were related by soldiers who returned England ...
... predict a few days ago that so large a proportion of our Army could extricate itself from its perilous situation in France and Flanders. Already scores of thousands of our troops, mostly British but including French and Belgian, have been brought over. It ...