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WAR BRIEFS

... Regiment, second son of Vice- Admiral G. H. D. O. Lyon and Mrs. Lyon, of Lymington, Hants., has been killed in action in Flanders. He played for England at Rugby Football. Well-informed circles Bucharest say that in response to Rumanian request, the Soviet ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BELGIAN REFUGEES' FORTITUDE

... Provinces of Liege and Namur, fleeing before the pitiless bombing of the German Air Force. They are hoping to find a refuge in Flanders. The streets round the capital are full of country carts with women, children and old people sitting on top of their hastily ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 378 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AIR WARFARE GOES ON

... Destroyed Or Damaged 16 BRITISH FIGHTERS MISSING The Air Ministry announces: 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 ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 587 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MOST OF B.E.F. MAY ESCAPE

... TROOPS FROM FLANDERS (WRITES A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WITH THE B.E.F. AT A SOUTH-EAST PORT). British, French and Belgians have been arriving during the past few days in their thousands, and it is hoped that most of the B.EF. may be evacuated, although the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1116 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

B.E.F. BOYS STILL POURING HOME

... ALLIES' DESPERATE REARGUARD ACTION IN FLANDERS, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF BRITISH AND FRENCH SOLDIERS CONTINUED TO POUR INTO ENGLAND TO-DAY. ACCORDING TO SOME ESTIMATES, ONLY DIVISION OF ALLIED TROOPS NOW REMAINS IN FLANDERS. All night long the Navy carried on ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1002 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKERQUE SITUATION IMPROVES

... an energetic command. Whether it will be held when its role as a refuge and a port of embarkation for the Allied Army in Flanders is completed is a secret of the Supreme Command. On the Somme no major operation is being undertaken for the moment. At the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 919 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE LIGHTER SIDE

... ' Simple Faith. A Staff officer held up for a moment on the pavement outside the War Office on the day when the news from Flanders wa6 blackest found himself close to elderly couple who stood gazing at the main entrance. They were decent country folk, ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 662 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GALLANT AIRMEN HONOURED

... been made, the main for gallantry and devotion to duty by officers and N.C.0.6 attached the A.A.S.F. before the evacuation of France and Flanders. Distinguished Flying Cross.—Sqdn-Ldr. Alan Ford Anderson, No Sqdn. ; Sqdn-Ldr. Harold Gibson Lee, A.F.C., H ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NORWAY

... of a batch of wounded men. though this meant his capture. His brother, Capt. S. T. Irwin, R.A.M.C., was also in Flanders, and was evacuated! Their father i 6 a Belfast surgeon. LAWSON LITTLE WINS AMERICAN OPEN. Lawson Little, British and American amateur ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 911 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

I WAS amazed to read the suggestion in letter in Wednesday's Post that the Central Market should be closed noon,

... be scheduled as reserved. Darlo.— Location of bouse does not affect tenant's obligations under tenancy agreement unless evacuated irom a defence area Anxious (Carlton) —To Crewe, through Derby, L'ttoxeter. Meir, Stoke and Newcastle, about miles. Jam-Maker ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1148 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WHY LEOPOLD CANNOT REIGN

... of the enemy. Admiral Abrial, who is in command of the French naval forces which have been assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Hon. Christopher Furness, of the Welsh Guards ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1090 | Page: 8 | Tags: none