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FOUR -! FIFTHS OF FROM DUNKIRK

... s of that B.E.F. which the Germans claim to have encircled.” A French spokesman yesterday said that there were hopes of evacuating 100,000 more men in the next 48 hours. Meanwhile, smashing blows are being made by the R.A.F. against the Germans. Seventy-eight ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
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London Letter

... Geoffrey Shakespeare was droning through the long list of members of public bodies who are to help him the committee (or the evacuation of schoolchildren overseas, to which number, by the way, must be added dozen or Government representatives, the Idea occurred ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
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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

MARVEL OF WITHDRAWAL

... and French troops are being safely landed in England, their comrades in Flanders are grimly continuing their great rearguard action against the German hordes. Figures of the evacuation are not permissible, but it is stated that they are very large. Allied ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 1219 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

London Letter

... London Letter “HOME” COMFORTS FOR THv HEROES OF FLANDERS Fleet Street, Monday Night un*upport«d it non,. ( our JF they never contribute another bombed *». A> '* penny to any war charity, fighters who were subscribe to any kind of War ou f. fl ht *« high ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 885 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AIR RAID WARNINGS

... with casualties o! wounded civilians ns well as the sick nd wounded of the fighting forces. Owing to losses in the evacuation from Flanders and France. huge %2 th es of stores. ambulances, have etc., ad to be replnced and this has been a ver matter, Mav ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1940
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Gethsemane Of The People

... Army that waited in perfect discipline on the shell-swept beaches .of Dunkirk, and of the Navy and airmen who made that evacuation possible. These men endured unto the end. As Dr. Jan Masaryk said in Leicester the other night. They looked Into hell let ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1001 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

'TJ— - THE LEICESTER MERCURYrTHURSD JUNE-1940 LCS Perms r- ' —- : ' You choose The Right HaifiStyle: -Experts help

... killed action Flanders - 'was educated at Oakham School where becftm prefect Cu3 of Ufflcers' Training Corps Mrs H Walton of 37 Melton-road Barrow - Soar received official nw brother Serat- John W Loom was killed in on during the Dunkirk evacuation Sergt-Major ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1232 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EVENING TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JUNE PUBLIC NOTICES GRANVILLE TOURS SUNDAY JUNE 9 SPECIAL EXPRESS SERVICE— Coach ..

... Offices: Carmelite House EC4 Telephone Central 6000 WEDNESDAY 5 1940 THE LESSON OF FLANDERS TTQW well Mr Churchill understands the temper of the nation In his review the Flanders battle yesterday the Premier avoided smooth words and easy reassurances he knew ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 3187 | Page: 4 | 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

DEFENDERS COES ON

... Bombing Activity France: Preparing for New Onslaught ORE the heroitf de- VI tenders of the aor them armies from Flanders are being speedily evacuated, protected by Allied Naval and Air Forces. ven dubbed Henry VI France, The Soldier s Bible’ , the spokesman ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 1422 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

T1 -e-f A-'' THE LEICESTER MERCURY SATURDAY BIRTHS MARRIAGES DEATHS7! (which jnlhriitH-U-d lea) Births ..

... ' said to preparing to hurl all available forces against the French capital soon-she— operations i' in Flanders are completed The battle in Flanders' said the Rome announcer has been rightly described the greatest battle in history but the battle to ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2366 | Page: 8 | Tags: none