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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

There Is a Lesson in the French Debacle

... were evacuated from Dunkirk. To-day I met a man who was in both the retirement from Flanders and the withdrawal from Normandy last week-end. Now that the French authorities have themselves admitted their terrible folly in taking no steps to evacuate refugees ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 793 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SOMME OPERATIONS

... of these men is becoming more and more difficult. It was emphasised in London to-day that the withdrawal the forces from Flanders a combined Allied operation during which the British and French are working in the closest unity with a steadiness never ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 445 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

eagl “ Proved Profiteering ” Denied

... Free Travel Warrants for Flanders Men Mr. Eden (Secretary for War), replying to Mr. Goldie (U.—Warrington), said instructions had been issued that free travelling warrants should be granted for the leave given to men evacuated from ports north of the Somme ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 265 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Line” Near The Coast

... SOUTH-EAST COAST TO-DAY, THEIR DECKS LADEN WITH ALLIED TROOPS FROM FLANDERS. BRITISH, FRENCH AND BELGIAN TROOPS ARE ARRIVING IN THEIR THOUSANDS, AND IT IS HOPED THAT MOST OF THE B.E.F. MAY BE EVACUATED, ALTHOUGH THE DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS INCREASE EVERY HOUR ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1342 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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

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... justified by results They almost succeeded in Flanders: King Leopold's treachery and the massed onslaught of the mighty German Army secured the evacuation but not the annihilation of the Allied forces That evacuation thanks to the skill the tenacity and the ...

Published: Sunday 09 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2070 | Page: 8 | 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

BE NEXT MONTH “Allowances” by million

... country. Criticisms of Scottish evacuation Scottish M.P.s will have a night to themselves on Tuesday, when the votes for health and education in Scotland will be taken, and also those for the Scottish Home Department. Evacuation in Scotland promises to be ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 604 | Page: 3 | 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

AY TO DUNKIRK rman Counter-Attack on 6 Somme Front Repulsed

... AY TO DUNKIRK rman Counter-Attack on Somme Front Repulsed AND MORE MEMBERS OF THE B.E.F. ARE BEING LANDED FROM FLANDERS, THE GREATER PART OF THE k*'® DIVISION OF GENERAL PRIOUX’S army has succeeded in WAY THROUGH THE GERMANS AND HAS JOINED THE ARMY Dunkirk ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 955 | Page: 1 | Tags: none