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WHAT HOW ?

... Northern France and Flanders. Every tribute was more then justified. The valiant dead shall be mourned while memory lasts. But the nation stiffens its sinews se it reads the Prime Minister's solemn reminder: Wars are not won by evacuations. We confront a ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CHIRNSIDE

... of root crops proceeds apace, but datal workers are difficult to find. There arc few, if any, unemployed in the district. Flanders. We are informed that word has boon received from all the local men who were in Northern France. The list includes Lieut ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Lord William Scott

... the men of the B.E.F. who have been on furlough in the Borders' during the past week. He returned from the battlefields of Flanders a fortnight ago after a long period of service as liaison officer on the staff of his Royal brother-in-law, the Duke of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 337 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... thinning root crops proceeds apace, but datal workers are difficult to find. There are few, if any, unemployed in the district. Flanders. We are informed that word has been received from all the local men who were in Northern France. The list includes Lieut ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 436 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BORDER NOTES

... the acid test of the centuries, is being steeled and burnished anew. Many of our Border lads have been in the inferno on Flanders fields. They share with their comrades the glory of compiling one of the most marvellous chapters in the world’s history ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 759 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

KELSO

... Kelso Laudry Co., Ltd. Sailor’s Ordeal. —Home on leave is a Kelso youth, Tom Plenderleith, R.N., who took part in the evacuation from Flanders. When nearing Dunkirk, enemy bombers flew overhead and soon they started bombing the ship. The ship was hit three ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 526 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FOR THE HARVEST

... THE new circular letter to the Billeting Officer, extracts from which we print to-day, make it crystal clear that in new evacuation compulsion will be resorted to in any case of refusal to comply with the billeting order. Nor is the local officer given ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1149 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BORDER NOTES AND COMMENTS

... forefathers. Border fighting men home on leave are not boastfully talkative. But even their brief references to the battle Flanders show that it was an inferno. In fact one summarised it when he said tersely it was ''pure hell.” They went overseas, untried ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1566 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SELKIRK

... commencement of hostilities, and was in France when the Allies marched to the help of Belgium. He was in the battle of Flanders and was evacuated from Dunkirk. The bridesmaids at the marriage were Misses Mary and Isa Smith, sisters of the bride, and Mr Robert ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2289 | Page: 4 | Tags: none