... 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 ...

... crowded station platforms in outer London yesterday to give a rousing welcome to British and French troops back from the Flanders battlefields as their trains steamed through the stations- Kiddies clamoured at the counters of sweetshops near one station ...

... was entitled to go to arbitration, but was not entitled to indemnified. Lord Justice Luxmoore dissented. Y.M.C.A. LOSSES IN FLANDERS It learned from the headquarters of the Y.M.C.A. in London that the organisation’s losses in that part of Belgium and Northern ...

... This Is REAL Gratitude £lOO Cheque from B.E.F- Man s Father In a spirit of thankfulness A for his son’s safe return from Flanders,” an Olton man has sent £lOO to the Lord Mayor of Birmingham (Councillor T. B. Pritchett), asking him to pass it on to an ...

... to-day of the latest operations came in the following Air Ministry statement: 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 ...

... the heroes of the Flanders rearbattle has been received from the King r - Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister. re ads:~ to express my admiration of the out- and bravery shown by the three services ritj L merchant navy in the evacuation of the (i Force ...

... BEF who had been evacuated from Dunkirk that the police had to make periodical clearances of the station Isolated parties arrived on ordinary trains including some Thames amateur yachtsmen who had volunteered to help in the evacuation MAZING stories of ...

... ROLL OUT THE BARREL HTHERE are many angles to the confused collective * story brought back from Flanders by our evacuated troops. But the cheerful sangfroid they must all have shown under fire and battery is a general impression. As usual with the average ...

... went into the Norwegian fiord to rescue the British prisoners from the Altmark. INVASION WILL FAIL IF— The occupation of Flanders, and of certain of the Channel Ports by the enemy, has made the possibilities of invasion by the enemy more real, and it ...

... 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 ...

... in the' main for gallantry and devotion to duty by officers and N.C.O.s attached to the A.A.S.F. before the evacuation of France and Flanders. Distinguished Flying Cross. Sqdn Ldr Alan Ford Anderson, Sqdn Leader Harold Gibson Lee, Sqdn Ldr Donald Walker ...

... 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 ...