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Government’s Request

... from which children were evacuated schools will not be opened from to-day. In other evacuation areas where registration has been going on during the weekend the schools will continue to be open for the time being. If evacuation should ordered they will ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1496 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REMIER’S warning of GERMAN BLOW

... of a th e ars are not won kj evacuations,” Mr. Churchill said in chiev° USe ° f Commons yesterday (see Page 8) describing the great iti , ecnent the Navy in carrying to safety more than 335,000 and French troops from Flanders. i°sses men exceeded 30,000 ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 973 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Paris—and After

... still using every effort, at every cost, to slow down and check Germany’s attack on France. Our soldiers, but newly evacuated from Flanders, are in line again in France, with others to reinforce them. The Royal Navy, perhaps at the cost of some privations ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 746 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A Stupendous Feat

... South-East Coast port yesterday morning of a number of steamers laden with Allied troops from Flanders, a Press Association correspondent writes: This mass evacuation is a stupendous feat, only made possible by the efficiency of the Royal Navy, the Mercantile ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 308 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

ROLL OF HONOUR

... year at Oxford University. He joinc.. the Forces in October. He had een Flanders only a short time and was killed while fighting in the rearguard action during the Dunkirk evacuation. His father is a well-known Manchester stockbroker and a former English ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 652 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

War Pressure on the Railways

... government has expressed thanks to the railways for the energy shown in running numerous troop trains for the evacuation of the Allied troops from Flanders. For this task 620 trains were needed to carry more than 300,000 troops in the space of eight days. In ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 441 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ULTIMATUM

... ULTIMATUM Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary for War, broadcasting last night, announced that more than four-fifths of the in Flanders have been embarked and saved. { apart from what the French had done for their own been able to bring tens of thousands of our ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 791 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

In the Lille Region

... were installed.—Reuter. KILLED AFTER SURVIVING PERILS OF BATTLE TWO B.E.F. MEN IN ROAD ACCIDENTS After returning safely from Flanders, Sapper A. Rutherford died on Saturday in military hosipital in the south of England from injuries received on Friday night ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 476 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Reluctant to Leave

... economic war effort. BELGIAN TROOPS FIGHTING IN FLANDERS SECOND CORPS ATTACHED TO THE B.E.F. Paris, June 2 A second Belgian Army corps, commanded General Desfontaines, is fighting with the Allies in Flanders, according to the Petit Journal.” The newspaper ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 850 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE BIRMINGH MOTHERS AND BABIES at the lordswood NURSERY

... garden a soldier rose from beside bed. He bad come to see his wife and the infant son who had been born during his absence in Flanders. Mother and baby were now at the nursery in Lordswood Road, Harborne, where they had come from one of the (Birmingham city ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 510 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HIS TROOPS

... dynamo room at a naval base on the South-East Coast of England, helped to direct the evacuation which saved more than 335,000 officers and men of the Allied forces in Flanders. The full story of the naval operations which enabled the 8.E.8'. to get home was ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1338 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEWS IN BRIEF

... NEWS IN BRIEF LOSSES OF THE Y.M.C.A. IN FLANDERS It is learned from the headquarters of the Y.M.C.A. in London that the organisation’s losses in that part of Belgium and Northern France now occupied by German forces include thirteen canteens, six other ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 579 | Page: 10 | Tags: none