B.E.F. HEROES THANKED

... HEROES THANKED Their Spirit a Tonic j For All Soldiers From Flanders at Church Parade MEN OF THE 8.E.F., WITH VIVID MEMORIES OF THE BATTERING THEY RECEIVED IN THE EPIC EVACUATION FROM FLANDERS, ATTENDED THE GARRISON CHURCH PARADE SERVICE AT EXETER CATHEDRAL ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 304 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RAHWAY COMPANIES’ GOOD WORK

... RAHWAY COMPANIES’ GOOD WORK The work of the railway companies during the evacuation of the British Ex|ieditiouary Force from Flanders won the admiration and thanks of the whole country. The Southern Railway boro the main burden, but credit is also due ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 154 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

G.C.B. for Lord Gort

... the Bath. He gave the King a first-hand account of the Flanders battle. Lord Gort's return was recorded the War Office in this announcement: As a result of the good progress made in the evacuation of the 8.E.F., and the consequent reduction in the size ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Stories of the Men Who Came Back

... Germans are waging this war in machine gunning and bombing helpless refugees, and the lesson of the Allied evacuation from the fields of Flanders is that our troops must have more guns, more ammunition and even more and more planes. ' • _ They are full ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: New Milton Advertiser
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Getting Down To It

... enemy is proceeding. The development of the new Local Defence Volunteers, the plans for the evacuation of children from the coastal regions opposite France and Flanders, the drive against the Fifth Column,” and other administrative changes are all evidence ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 670 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOR 10'6 GLASSES SEE PIERCE EMBARKATION GOES ON

... the Allied Navies and Air Forces, the work of embark. the last heroic defenders who have covered the evacuation of the Northern armies from Flanders is goin; steadily forward, in spite of aerial bombing and bombardment by German Icng-rangc guns. The troops ...

French Rearguard Hacking Through

... Press Association. UNITED STATES PRAISE FOR ALLIED ARMIES “A DEFEAT, BUT NOT A DISASTER New York, May 31 Evacuation of the Allied Armies from Flanders is recounted at great length in the New York Press to-day. A despatch to the New York Times ” from Berlin ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 655 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Stockton’s Tribute To Allied Forces THE MAYOR (Alderman J. W. Gargett), at last evening’s meeting of Stockton ..

... or missing in the French and Belgian evacuation, as stated in the House of Commons the Prime Minister, and as expression of thankfulness that as many as 335,000 men had been successfully brought home from Flanders. On behalf of the Royal Humane Society ...

EARL DIES OF WOUNDS

... has been wounded in Flanders. He is thirty. FLANDERS SOLDIER TOOK CAR IN BID TO SEE WIFE Lance-Corporal Clifford Edward Williams, twenty-five, a Guardsman, whose home is in South Wales, is one of the B.E.F. evacuated from Flanders. Unable to get leave ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 437 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

the coast, 1 where the military police took charge of him. The soldier said that the German burst into tears

... home some days before the general withdrawal. News that two Ayton men, John Burn and David Millar, had been safely evacuated from Flanders was received last week. News has been received during the week-end -that Driver Win. Voung, Coldstream, who was with ...

Rise In London

... Rise In London Heroic fighting by the b.e.f. and french REARGUARDS IN THE GREAT FLANDERS BATTLE HAS ALLOWED THE WOUNDED AND THOSE NOT ACTIVELY ENCAGED TO BE EVACUATED, IT WAS OFFICIALLY REVEALED LAST NIGHT. With the help of the Royal Navy, and screened ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 438 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OUR MEN OF IRON

... IRON It was revealed in London yesterday that the crew of a British ship ironed the clothes of nurses whom they evacuated from the Flanders coast. The ship had made its third trip across the North Sea then it picked up a party of hospital nurses who were ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 174 | Page: 6 | Tags: none