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The Russian Enigma

... have been accepted. In about a month’s time these are to be displayed in three iooms, together with selection of worts not evacuated with the bulk of the collection, illustrating aspects of nineteenth-century art. Recent acquisitions include bequest of modern ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1297 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MORE WARWICK MEN SERVING WITH THE FORCES

... Army. All are Old Warwickians. Corpl. Henry Norman Forbes, who is 34. is the Royal Engineers, and took part in the second evacuation from France. On leaving school he served as a booking clerk on the Great Western Railway at Warwick and at Bordesley, Birmingham ...

lies Column Ready

... victory.” Some idea of the scene at Cambrai is drawn by a British United correspondent who saw the whole civilian population evacuated within six hours, despite the destruction of one of the railway stations. Over the scene of battle, masses of German and ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1202 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

POUCE CHIEF GRABBED BY THROAT. SUPERINTENDENT WOODWARD IN MARKET SQUARE SCENE. BOROUGH COURT SEQUEL. CONDUCT OF ..

... Miss W. M. Potter and Miss J. Oodfrey-Psyton. If Invasion Comes. DOTY OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION DEFINED. The occupation of Flanders and of certain of the Channel ports by the enemy has made the possibilities of Invasion the enemy more real, and it is essential ...

Three GORT HOME AT am SUNDAY MERCURY Jane 194 Mrs J L with her prize-winning twins at yesterday’s Birmingham ..

... member of the Central Electricity Board Reuter The following is announcement : As a result of the good progress made in the evacuation of the BEF and the consequent reduction in the size of the force now remaining in Northern France General Lord Gort has ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1599 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MEMORABLE DAYS RECALLED

... for the “Courier” giving an account the doings of Company the days leading up to the evacuation Dunkirk. The article gives a graphic picture of events France and Flanders. We experienced more than one catch the throat when reading it. On May 10th were awakened ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1940
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1154 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ADMISSION; ONE SAUCEPAN

... of King Leopold. Evacuees on Theft Charge. —“ln view of their home conditions at Aston, and notwithstanding these lapses, evacuation has been a godsend to these brothers. said Mr. R. H. Warren, school attendance officer, at Leamington Juvenile Court, when ...

£1294 16 0 City Hospital Patients

... outnumbered, and because of this there have been sections of the fighting lines, and periods during the difficult evacuation drama in Flanders, when it seemed almost as though the massed German formations held a monopoly of the skies. This situation is a ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1537 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WEYGAND LINE

... to all men and ivomen who went to the assistance of Belgium by land, air and sea, and who also took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, and, if so, ivill the medal he presented to British, French and Belgian Allied men.” Three Generals Captured, Say Nazis ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1722 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE HARD FACTS OF THE WAR REALISTIC SPEECH BY THE

... from the Flanders battlefield. That was not the Prime Minister's idea at all of the proper proportions of the situation. We must be very careful, he said, not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuation. Again ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1750 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Two SUNDAY MERCURY 4 August 1944 FROM ONE CENTURY’S WARS TO ANOTHER SQUADRON LEADER’S AWARD UP DAY AFTER SEA DRAMA

... destroyed at least two planes AT K IKK Acting Flight-Lieut John Ellis is another DFC on offensive over Dunkirk during the evacuation Twice while deputising for commanding officer he a four squadrons displaying initiative and destroying enemy planes Later ...

Published: Sunday 04 August 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1885 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

■»..* '4 *, » '« W**. ”* r Rugby Allotment HpWtf* Theatres & Cinemas ■■ EDISON AT MALA WsUm* je*»y

... service to the village has been widened to cater for the evacuee children from London, and the adults who have voluntarily evacuated to the district. In the period just ended, more than 600 volumes were borrowed, and for the period just begun a new aelectio* ...

Published: Friday 15 November 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2252 | Page: 8 | Tags: none