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BE EVACUATED

... BE EVACUATED WE SHALL GO BACK AND TURN THEM OUT” At a South-East Port, Friday. Shortly after dawn to-day I watched a number of steamers come sweeping into harbour, their decks laden with Allied troops from Flanders (writes a Press Association correspondent ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 409 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CEN. 7482. EVACUATION PRAISED

... CEN. 7482. EVACUATION PRAISED “THE ALLIES HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT” New York, Thursday High praise for the Allies’ achievements in evacuating such a large part of the armed forces believed to be trapped in Flanders is contained in the U.S. press. Like ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 269 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HAVE BEEN EVACUATED ALLIES DETERMINED TO FIGHT

... CRAFT OF ALL KINDS WENT TO AND FRO ACROSS THE CHANNEL. According to a French estimate more than 100,000 men have been evacuated from Flanders, while other unofficial reports suggest that the majority of the B.E.F. have now been taken off. On the other hand ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 583 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BEFRIENDED DOGS

... the animals they rescued in France and Flanders, has given rise to a new need on the part of the U.S.P.C.A. in Birmingham. Quarantine kennels are being established in the city, in order that some of the evacuated dogs may be cared for till their soldier ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 268 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE BIRMINGHAM MAIL, DUNKIRK DEFENDERS MEN STILL EMBARKING FROM BEACHES

... THE AL LI ED NAVI ES AND Al R FORCES, THE WORK OF EMBARKING THE HEROIC DEFENDERS WHO HAVE COVERED THE EVACUATION OF THE NORTHERN ARMIES FROM FLANDERS IS GOING STEADILY FORWARD IN SPITE OF AERIAL BOMBING AND BOMBARDMENT BY GERMAN LONG-RANGE GUNS. THE TROOPS ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 504 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MOST MATERIAL

... the area in landing supplies and in the work of evacuation. British and French troops are reported to be still heroically holding on in Calais. Amplifying his earlier statement on the operations in Flanders, the French War Office spokesman said that the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 298 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Getting Down To It

... enemy is proceeding. The development of the new Local Defence Volunteers, the plans for the evacuation of children from the coastal regions opposite France and Flanders, the drive against the Fifth Column,” and other administrative changes are all evidence ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 670 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CAR AWAY

... Lance - Corporal Clifford Edward Williams (aged 25), a Guardsman, whose home is in South Wales, is one of the B.E.F. evacuated from Flanders. Unable to get leave to visit his wife and a baby he has never seen, he took away doctor’s car in order to get home ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 165 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STATION SCENES IN BIRMINGHAM

... STATION SCENES IN BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND TROOPS’ EXPERIENCES The evacuation of the B.E.F. and French troops from Dunkirk continued throughout the night and to-day. The disembarkation of war-weary but still wonderfully cheerful fighting men is being carried ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 159 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BIRMINGHAM STORY

... BIRMINGHAM STORY A 66-year-old widowed mother of Erdington, -who has been prostrate since the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Northern France because she had received no news of her 27-year-old son, was overjoyed at their re-union in Birmingham this afternoon ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 311 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LONDON STATION SCENES

... LONDON STATION SCENES “SEND MORE PLANES” PLEA British troops evacuated from Flanders (see Page 6) were passing through London on their way to rejoin depots in a continuous stream to-day. The men said that the B.E.F. had inflicted casualties at the rate ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

PRISONERS OF WAR

... a batch of wounded men, though this meant his capture. His brother, Captain S. T. Irwin, R.A.M.C., was also in Flanders, and was evacuated. Their father is a Belfast surgeon. ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 203 | Page: 8 | Tags: none