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... 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 beleaguered in Flanders, The full story of their part and of the brilliant naval operations which ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 769 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Kiddies Rush To Buy Sweets For B.E.F. Men Back Home

... children in Sunday best crowded station platforms in outeY London yesterday to welcome British and French troops back from Flanders, as their trains steamed through the stations. Kiddies clamoured to buy chocolate and sweets to push into the hands of men ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 851 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AFTER A YEAR 7 /^l. Ihese racts (jive OF WAR

... fighting in France and Flanders well within remembrance, and we know how. in conformance with the general plan after the German breakthrough, the British retreated steadily and five-sixths of the troops were successfully evacuated from Dunkirk by a miracle ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1055 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Prussian Scorn

... do under orders of the Prussian High Command. Journal of an Optimist VOU would hear a iittle while ago of the troops from Flanders who pulled up in a station, and of how a working man there opened his wage-packet and spent eight shillings on little comforts ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 662 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AIR ATTACK HORROR Machine-Guns Mow Down Refugees WOUNDED BOMBED

... COMMUNIQUE issued to-day by the French Admiralty states: “In the course of North Sea operations off the Dutch islands and Flanders coasts, we have lost the submarine Doris, the destroyer L’Adroit and the supply ship Le Niger. “The crews of the last-mentioned ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 656 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

R.A.F. Awards For Gallantry In

... devotion to duty by officers and N.C-O.s attached to the Advanced Air Striking Force before the evacuar tion of France and Flanders. DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS Squadron Leader Alan Ford Anderson, No. 613 Squadron; Squadron Leader Harold Gibson Lee, AF.C ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 630 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

D.S.O. AWARDS F

... D.S.O. AWARDS FLANDERS HEROES COMMANDING the 6th Infantry Brigade, Col. D. W. Furlong held the enemy for 48 critical hours during the withdrawal of the 8.E.F., and although surrounded and with his men decimated, led the indomitable remnants of the Brigade ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 700 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

’PLANES

... advising them to? return to Britain. If they cannot find a means of leaving the country, they arete report to a rendezvous for evacuation^ ALLIES' ADVAME Belgians Strew Roads With Flowers (From a British United Press Correspond dent with the 8.E.F.) British ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 724 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SOUTHAM

... succeeded in getting all three men into her ambulance and taking them to hospital. In another hospital 70 patients were evacuated during the height of the bombing TWO SHOT DOWN The following communique was issued by the Air Ministry and Ministry of Home ...

Published: Monday 02 December 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 704 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUNDAY SUN JUNE 2 1940 When it is possible to tell anything like full story of North's incredible valour in

... parents who stubbornly refused to allow their children to be evacuated I return to the subject because it is now urgent To-morrow morning sees the end of the registration period for the evacuation of Tyneside youngsters The sands are running out fast If there ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Sunday Sun (Newcastle)
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 3852 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Arms Production Leaps Up

... Arms Production Leaps Up THE story of the B.E.F.’s fight in Flanders and the drama of the Dunkirk evacuation was told by the Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) in a crowded House of Commons yesterday. The Premier said that from the moment that the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1844 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Low Fell Hospital Artist’s Death KING’S COLLEGE PUPIL

... Army in rte. Duncan bell being a member of Ravensworth and Lyndhurst clubs. Hit In Air Bombardment Wounded in the Dunkii'k Evacuation, Private Ralph EUiott, of 9. Brockley Terrace. Boldon i ~ Colliery, has had his right arm amputated ». in an English mill- ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 716 | Page: 3 | Tags: none